Word: tosses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...some cases stand for five minutes talking before they remove them. Seated at the table, they begin to talk and laugh loudly on subjects distasteful to those unfortunates who happen to be within ear-shot. Again, as though they had been unused to good manners at home, they toss food to and fro across the table as if they were ignorant of the fact that the faculty furnish a "cage" in the gymnasium in which to practice hand-ball. In truth, a cage seems to be the only suitable place for the majority of them. Now and then...
...Wanderings of Alexis" are still going on, and the interesting part of them is that there is such a mixture of sense and nonsense in them, one can scarcely tell whether to go on reading or toss the paper away in disgust. In the last number the disgust won the battle. In this number the temptation is the same, but the piece is written in an easy style which has held the reader till...
...game was not called until quarter past three on Saturday, owing to a discussion whether Harding was really a freshman and entitled to play. The Yale captain yielded at last. Harvard won the toss and took the upper end of the field, having the sun behind them and what wind there was in their favor, while Yale had the kick...
Harvard played her last championship game at Philadelphia on Thanksgiving Day and won easily. Although the weather was threatening, it rained very little, and the grounds were in a fair condition. Pennsylvania won the toss and chose the advantage of a light wind. The ball was dribbled to Sears, who gained a few yards. By sharp running the ball was forced slowly down the field, Wood and Holden made pretty rushes, and at last the ball was down at Pennsylvania's five-yard line. In lining out Holden took the ball straight through the Pennsylvania line, and scored the first...
Princeton won the toss and chose the east goal, having the wind in her favor. Corbin dribbles to Beecher, who gains ten yards before being tackled. He loses the ball, however, and Ames regains the ten yards lost. A wild pass to Savage gives Yale fifteen yards, and ineffectual tries by Price and Ames force Princeton to her ten-yard line. Savage makes a magnificent punt to Yale's forty-yard line. Watkinson kicks, Ames returns the kick and Cook falls on the ball. Cowan takes the ball, five yards and Ames carries it to Yale's five yard line...