Word: wind
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Cabot developed an ability to kick which will stand the team in good stead. His long low drives against the wind would have done credit to any 'varsity player...
...seniors won the class football championship yesterday afternoon in a well-earned victory, defeating the freshmen by the score of 8 to 0. Soldiers Field was covered with snow, and with the cold wind blowing across the grounds, it was impossible to play good football, much fumbling resulting. Considering the harsh weather, a considerable number of supporters turned out and often the enthusiasm of the seniors led them to get in the way of the players. This is the first time ninety-five has won the football championship, although the class team has been in the finals for the last...
...tfTHIS is the second week of "Sowing the Wind" at the Columbia, and it is a remarkable work. It ran for two hundred nights at the Empire, New York, all summer in Chicago, and for quite a season in London. "Sowing the Wind" is said to be the best play Sydney Grundy has yet written. Its plot is simple and unhampered by extraneous incident. Its development is direct and logical and its treatment is original. The language is full of grace and precision and the author has handled a necessarily dangerous subject with delicacy and finesse, yet with distinctness...
...games yesterday afternoon were on the whole not a very great success. There were a large number of entries and most of the men entered showed up but the track was soft and heavy and a strong wind blew down the stretch so that no good records were made. In addition to this darkness came on so early as to cause four of the events to be postponed...
BTEShooting Club.Match A was continued yesterday in a high wind and driving rain. The scores were: Sargent 5, Childs 4, Byrd 4, Sterling 4, Dove 4. A special match was also shot with the following results: Sargent 9, Sterling 5, Byrd 5, Childs...