Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...solemnly announced that with the spring season the present fashion of tight-fitting clothes is to disappear, and a sudden change will be made to loose and slippered pantaloons, if we may pervert the quotation...
...Exonian of Phillips Exeter Academy has the following : "Last year, as most of our readers are aware, boating was far below par. The reason for this sudden change from the intense enthusiasm of the previous year to a state of utter indifference was due to the decidedly unsatisfactory - to put it mildly - boats in which the crews would be compelled to row. Now, unless new boats are secured this spring a race next June is not likely to occur. The boat club, we are informed, has not many thousand dollars in its treasury, in fact, is barely free from debt...
...their number who was charged with stealing a book from a hospital. At the Guildhall police court a crowd of students assembled, and by yells and other expressions of interest attracted an extra force of policemen. When the court was opened the proceedings were threatened with a sudden termination, but the judge abmonished the young men, and quiet was restored...
...lungs are able to use the oxygen taken into them, until the highest obtainable speed is reached, when it should decrease slowly to a walking pace once more. By observing these precautions, one is sure of not suffering from dizziness or overstraining, or of being chilled by a sudden cessation of quick movements, especially on a cold or windy day. Running is not a pastime in which heavy men ought to engage, as a rule, as they are liable to injure themselves in anything like a spurt, unless they have been carefully trained, and all the superfluous adipose matter burned...
...successful. The greatest danger to which the Harvard society is exposed is internal dissension. Students are too apt to follow blindly the lead of a few men. It was this tendency which came so near ruining Memorial Hall last spring, and it was the same influence that suddenly put the hall on a firm footing again. The fiscal year of the society ends on the third Wednesday of February, and on that day the annual dues of members are payable. A sudden prejudice against the society formed at that time might cause the membership to decline so seriously...