Word: wind
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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When the crews took their stations at six o'clock at the Union Boat Club, a slight wind was blowing, but not strong enough to disturb the water. The tide was coming in and everything was perfect for a good race...
...console the imaginative and solitary only, and suffice to him who already suffices to himself. The thought of a god vaguely and vaporously dispersed throughout the visible creation, the conjecture of an animating principle that gives to the sunset its splendors, its passion to the storm, to cloud and wind their sympathy of form and movement, that sustains the faith of the crag in its forlorn endurance, and of the harebell in the slender security of its stem, may inspire or soothe, console or fortify, the man whose physical and mental fibre is so sensitive that, like the spectroscope...
VI.Montalgne.Essay writers of the old fashioned Tatler school were wont to catch at some hint offered by their daily walk as a point from which to wind off the yarn of their discourse, and at the same time supply the material for their spinning. Montaigne set the example of this method, though he commonly found in his library the peg on which to hang his inspired twaddle, and must have his wits shaken up and put in motion by stumbling over some jutting sentence in a book he was loitering through. Or sometimes it was a derangement...
...time set for the race the rain had stopped and there was scarcely any wind. The word was given as soon as the crews reached their stations. There was some splashing at the start by all except the freshmen...
...second shoot for the handicap cup was held yesterday afternoon in a high wind. The scores were: Sargent 29, Lawton 26, Byrd 23, Clark 22, Merriam...