Word: wading
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tide ran very low indeed, and those of the crews were obliged to wade knee-deep into the water to launch their shells...
...Winthrop H. Wade, the treasurer of the Harvard Law School Association, has submitted his report covering the period from Sept. 23, 1887, (the date of organization) to Dec. 31, 1886. There is a balance in the treasury...
...existing ministry, hoping to benefit from the confusion which would follow. All attempts to form a new ministry failed, and a revolution seemed inevitable. The dangerous classes of Paris were eager for a revolt and threats were made that if M. Ferry were elected president he would have to wade through a sea of blood. Mobs marched through the streets clamoring for Grevy's resignation, while the government prepared for a conflict. Grevy promised to resign, but was persuaded that the election of Ferry, which was sure to ensue, would be the signal for the overthrow of the Republic...
Thirteen members of the Shooting Club were enthusiastic enough Thursday afternoon to wade through about an eighth of a mile of snow a foot deep, to reach the shooting house, after leaving the cars at Watertown. But they were amply repaid for their trouble. The day was perfect and the conditions for good shooting were most favorable. Mr. Greene, '89, did the best shooting, making a score of 17 out of a possible 20. Below are the leading scores in the different matches...
...gained from such reading has a certain delicious flavor of uncertainty that shows only too well how desultory such a process of work is. In History 13, however, the instructor has given us a system whereby we can get at the sense of the question without being compelled to wade through pages of unimportant or irrelevant matter. It would entail a large amount of work upon the instructor but there would be a great saving of labor, and a more concise and philosophical knowledge of history among Harvard men, if the very much desired system of History 13 could become...