Word: wide
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Brooke tried for a goal from the field, but went almost forty feet wide. The ball came out to the 40 yard line, and Hayes kicked to Osgood; but in a minute Pennsylvannia got it on offside play on Harvard's 20 yard line...
MESSRS. Noyes Bros., Cor. Washington and Summer streets, Boston, have made special for Harvard men, for the Harvard and Yale game, "of which Harvard are sure winners this year," a very attractive flag or banner, 3-4 of a yard long, 1-2 a yard wide, in the Harvard crimson color, with the letter "H" mounted on a four-foot staff, which is also in the Harvard color, the whole thing being most attractive and serviceable, which they shall retail at 25 cents each...
...doctrine of Animism is the name given to the ideas held by the early races of man about souls or spiritual beings. Its wide prevalence is substantiated by many of the relics of the early periods. There is a marked continuity in the ideas on this subject. Animism is an elementary philosophy by which man explains himself and as man has advanced, the group of ideas on this subject at any time have always been appropriate to the state of advancement...
...numbers, wealth, and intellectual resources, not merely an advance along old and conspicuous lines; but a transformation of nature and spirit, a new birth of university life. President Eliot formed here, at his accession, many survivors of a group of men of distinguished talents and learning, who gave wide fame to the institution, and had striven in its Faculty for a generation to lift it to the higher and freer plane of activity on which alone true scholarship can be found. But in spite of all that had been accomplished at that time, and of all that...
...sixty-one and a half foot paper shell, built for the 'varsity by Waters of Troy, has arrived. It looks wide and has not the usual depth of a 'varsity shell...