Word: tear
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...concert or anything else is going on in the yard, and how annoying they are when we wish to lie around under the trees in warm weather. We have in mind certain tennis courts on the north side of Jarvis that were almost ruined by the wear and tear of mucker ball games. The muckers hold full sway; they annoy us at every step, sometimes because we, forsooth, are in their way, and sometimes with malice aforethought...
...stand the extremes to which our manufacture is exposed and adapted. A ball will have one bound with the thermometer at 40 degrees, and another with it at 90 degrees. We have now adopted Ayres' plan of under-stitching, and our balls will not cut and tear on gravel...
...care has to be taken with the grass, we regret to see that through thoughtlessness or for other causes, so many men are accustomed to walk across the new athletic grounds. The sod is in anything but a flourishing condition, and can ill afford to bear the wear and tear which the continual tramping of men will bring upon it. Especially do these remarks apply to the baseball field which has recently been sodden at the expense of the nine, and which must receive special care if any of the championship games are to be played upon it. Although...
...ostracised ; while he who excels in both fencing and drinking becomes at once the idol of his fellow students and the secret admiration of the town maidens. So strong is the passion for fame that the veriest trifles are construed into portentous insults and men have been known to tear open wounds partially healed, that scars might be formed as souvenirs of past encounters...
Library laws were very strict-heavy penalties were attached to any injury of the books and in addition the student on entering the Library for the first time made a solemn oath not to steal, tear or deface any of the volumes...