Word: went
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Second round - Once more the men went at it with a will, Parker leading and Ayars countering with good success. Ayars got in some leads and body blows and was loudly applauded. Parker stood up to his work with a will, however, and the contest was most exciting...
...with a pound of meat. Two days in the week, Monday and Thursday, the meal was boiled, and in college language, these were known as boiling days. On the five remaining days the meat was roasted, and to them the nickname of roasting days was fastened. With the flesh went always two potatoes. When boiling days came round pudding and cabbage, wild peas and dandelions were added. The only delicacy to which no stint was applied was the cider, a beverage then fast supplanting the small beer of the Colonial days. This was brought to the men in pewter cans...
Third round. - Page got in his body blows with good effect, and led hard with his left, almost invariably following it up with his right. Lee rallied, and landed a lead square on Page's face. Once more the men went at it, and another rapid exchange followed, in which Page seemed to have the best of it. The bout and the cup were awarded to Page...
First round. - The men fought very shy of each other, and their feints caused much amusement, neither seeming able to get a hold. When they did grapple both went to the floor, but neither gained a fall. Soon after they closed again, and Bonsal, falling upon his face, was quickly turned upon his back by Cabot, who thus won the first fall...
First round. - The men lost no time in getting to work, and went at it in a manner which showed that they were thorough masters of the art. They both went down but such was their skill that neither seemed able to get the other over; finally, however, Bangs' weight told in his favor and he got a leg hold which he retained successfully and threw Lilienthal heavily. Time...