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Word: westing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...West Point won the toss, and King punted for 35 yards. Gonterman caught the ball and started to run, but Reisinger and Nolan were both on him before he could make any advance. Harvard then commenced to carry the ball back by systematic attacks on West Point's line, varied occasionally by round the end plays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD, 4; WEST POINT, O. | 10/14/1895 | See Source »

...game with West Point was on the whole a satisfactory one, considering the discouraging predictions which had been made in some quarters. The Harvard line showed a strength which was beyond expectation,- a favorable sign, judging from past years, when weakness at this point has been the rule at the beginning of the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/14/1895 | See Source »

...West Point team did not put up as strong a game as was expected, its playing should be a valuable lesson to every football player at Harvard, as an example of what can be accomplished by earnest application, under the most unfavorable circumstances. The strict discipline which is manitained at the military academy makes it impossible for the football players to have more than fifteen minutes each day for practice. An exception is made on Saturday, when they are allowed an hour and twenty minutes for a game, and on one other day in the week when they are given...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/14/1895 | See Source »

...come there, even how he had been killed, as his body showed no external injuries of a mortal character, but it was soon ascertained that he had parted from a friend at an early hour, near the scene of the accident, to take the elevated for his home on West Ninety-second street. He evidently fell from the platform unseen while waiting for the train, and was caught by the next passing and dragged by his clothes 150 feet to where he was found, receiving internal injuries which caused his death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBITUARY. | 10/14/1895 | See Source »

...Holyoke street, one suite of desirable rooms with south and west exposure. Terms reasonable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notice. | 10/14/1895 | See Source »

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