Word: wield
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...made of light weight the material will have to be thin, and consequently cannot resist with ease a volley or swift serve. To be of use they ought to weigh at least 141/2 oz., which is heavier than we are accustomed to. However, to a man who can wield easily a heavy racket, these will be of great service, for they will be very useful in serving, cutting and volleying. The "triangle" racket is the latest invention, and it will probably have a large sale with players of all classes, with some on account of its real usefulness, and with...
...class ode will be competed for by those members of the class who do not rank as commencement men. A goodly number of pedagogues have departed to wield the Birch in winter schools, but the proportion of teachers from the senior class is very small. Reeve's American Band of Providence has been engaged by the senior class to furnish the music for commencement week. Vocalists for the concert have not yet been selected. Owing to the lack of cooperation on the part of the under-classmen the seniors have decided not to establish a lecture course this winter. Several...
...clock precisely the Princeton men entered the arena; the Yale men appeared five minutes later. Fate, however, was against the New England college. At 10.45 the four surviving Yale men who were still able to wield their clubs cried for quarter, and the referee, announcing that Princeton had won the championship, delivered the ball to the Princeton leader. The casualties are : Three Yale men and three Princeton men killed; four Yale men and seven Princeton men wounded, two of the latter not being expected to recover. Robinson and Brown, of Yale, have each both legs broken, and Jenkins, of Princeton...
...Canadian backwoods girl, who could wield gun and paddle as skilfully as her hunter brother, with whom she lived in the wilderness. When I first saw her, she was speeding a canoe across the wild river that ran in front of their cabin. The apparition of this beautiful girl set the last charm upon the loveliness of the spot. The utter solitude of the forest around; the white water of the river, that mirrored the hemlocks hanging in rich tracery over its edge; the densely wooded mountains behind, that rose blue in the thin autumnal haze, - all were consecrated...