Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...style. Towards the end of the round both were somewhat winded. In spite of this fact the third round was opened in a determined manner by Thayer, who, however, received a left hand counter every time he led. Dame's hard hitting had its effect; Thayer's blows got weaker and, although he tried to force the fight, Dame easily avoided him by stepping aside. When he led Dame reached the mark every time. The bout was awarded to Dame...
...fellow must be treated differently than the others. Yet the members of our crews, and base and foot-ball teams are all trained alike. When a man gets over-trained they do not let him rest a day and then go on. If one finds his lungs a little weaker than the others, and that he cannot run from a warm gymnasium into the cold, frosty air without injuring himself, he leaves the team. And yet, perhaps, that very man would row a better race in June than the others...
...thank the management of Memorial Hall for a slight alleviation of the hardships to which the boarders in the hall are exposed. The cause of my gratitude is the improvement in the character of that article which comes to us fourteen times a week, and each time generally weaker, and more ethereal than the last. In short, Memorial Hall soup seems to be improving. Since Sunday we have been favored with a really sensible kind of liquid, one plate of which contains more nutriment than five gallons of the thin and starving consomme and the ill-famed Scotch broth. Rumor...
...stop the opposing half-back from kicking the ball back. In the whole of the game against Andover, the Harvard rush line did not stop the halfbacks from kicking one single time after a down, a showing which, as they were playing against a lighter and weaker team, is very poor indeed. When our own half-backs kick the ball and the rush line can get down before the opposing half-back can catch the ball, they keep pretty well together; but when the kick has been a little too long they go straggling down the field at full speed...
...same line. The eloquence of the speaker is necessary to give force to the subject matter of the lecture on the Workingman. As a whole, the work makes the best use of the arguments at hand, but there is an element of sophisty in the treatment of the weaker points in the subject...