Word: sustained
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...inserted a plank running at right angles to the pile and the main beam and extending back to the boat house. With all these holes and patches the spot was naturally a very weak one. Of course under ordinary circumstances the structure could support the weight it had to sustain, but on this occasion the crowd of a hundred or more directly above it proved too much for it and it gave away. These conditions and several theories of the direct cause of the accident present themselves. In the first place the gradual sinking of the pile into the soft...
Charges have not been made simply by other colleges, but by the public. The accounts of the Yale-Harvard game, given by the New York Clipper and other papers, could not have been written without some basis to sustain the charge. Yale, at last realizing the force of this charge has been compelled to treat it with something besides brow-beating contempt. - [Nassan (Princeton...
...clashed with the "Babies on Our Block." By this time the whole air resounded with a wondrous pot-pourri, a strange medley of songs, hymns, anthems, curses, utterly regardless of time or place, each player translating into sound the overwhelming passion of his soul. But this sublimity could not sustain itself. The crisis was approaching. One of the basses, by a mighty stroke, sent the ball high into the air; it paused, hesitated, then floated between the goal posts. Breathless was the suspense as it rose, and silence seized the entire company, but as it crossed the bar the whole...
...cause for suspension, and two of the unfortunate upper classmen were invited to take a vacation. Their fellows thought this unfair, and appealed to the faculty, saying that they were also engaged in the disturbance. The faculty stood by their decision, and refused to reinstate the suspended students. To sustain their honor, as they claim, and to bring the faculty to terms, the entire senior and junior classes concluded to leave college, which resolution was carried into effect yesterday. It is uncertain what the result will be, though it is thought a settlement will soon be reached and the absentees...
...speculation is useless, yet we have reason to congratulate our team on playing so good a game, even under these circumstances. New York brought on the best men in her team - in fact, she borrowed one of the famous Shamrocks of Canada. That Harvard could, without losing a goal, sustain the attack of these wily old "Canucks" is no mean proof of her ability to meet them on a fair field with no favors. Wheeler, Flannery, Journeay, Morison, Ritchie and Tucker made up the New York team. Eaton, Davis, Rueter, Noble (capt.), Ennis, Thorndike, Marquand, Noyes and Woods played...