Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...scratch men, won the time prize, coming in first in 29m. 42 4/5s. This lowered the record for the course 1m. 57 4/5s. This record is especially remarkable, for Elliot when about half way over the course got the wheel of his bicycle caught in a rut and was thrown, scraping his knee badly...
...present the worst criticism that can be brought on the play of Penn's eleven is that their work is impulsive and not regularly good. When it was absolutely necessary for the team to brace, then Brown could never gain an inch, and her runners were generally thrown backward; but this sort of play did not keep up as it should, and a few such moments of laxity might lose the game against Harvard. The same thing can be said of the offence. When the players really settled down to hard work and rushed at Brown's defence with...
...subject for debate was: "Resolved, That the suffrage be extended to the women of the United States." The principal disputants on the affirmative were Thayer, Williams and Studley; on the negative, Virgin, Boody and Becker. Ten men spoke after the debte was thrown open to the house. After the debate was closed Charles Grilk, president of the '98 Freshman Debating Club, delivered, by invitation, a critique of the meeting...
...subject for debate was: "Resolved, That the suffrage be extended to the women of the United States." The principal disputants on the affirmative were Thayer, Williams and Studley; on the negative, Virgin, Boody and Becker. Ten men spoke after the debate was thrown open to the house. After the debate was closed Charles Grilk, president of the '98 Freshman Debating Club, delivered, by invitation, a critique of the meeting...
About eighteen years ago when Dr. Winsor became Librarian of the University, he accidently came upon the cross in the cellar of the Library. It had apparently been thrown there carelessly, when the stack was erected. It was marked as the "Louisburg Cross" at the time. At Dr. Winsor's suggestion it was gilded and placed over the entrance to the Library where it has been ever since...