Word: wont
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...morrow. The men experienced considerable difficulty and discomfort in getting into their boats, as the large float was not put in position until Monday, and they were obliged to crowd into the small boat-house and embark from the small float. On account of the high winds which are wont to prevail during this time of year, the water has been rather rough. Yesterday, however, the Charles was as calm as a mill-pond...
...intellect has not yet been entirely abandoned. We had thought that this fallacy had been long ago exploded, but when a man occupying so prominent a position as does President Robinson, deliberately states it as his conviction that the students who hold positions on the various athletic teams are wont to make their studies secondary to their work in the field, we feel that so sweeping a statement ought to be carefully analyzed. Let us, for Harvard may fairly be said to represent the American University in its most ideal form, look at the question from a Harvard standpoint...
...money- that bane of all sports- to compete for. He wrestled for honor alone, and if "t' priest could thraw t' shepherd" more likely were his sermons to find their way to the hearts of his rustic parishioners. One clergyman, when he had got up in years, was wont to boast...
...order list the board is made elastic so that members can get $8.00 board if they choose, it has been found impossible to make the service elastic. They can't put waiters on the order list. So members should remember before they complain about the waiters, that $4.25 wont pay swell French waiters any more than it will buy porter-house steaks...
...anxious to pick it up and run with it, that they generally fail to secure it. They must fall on it more and they must get it well in their arms, not expect to get a down with merely one or both hands on the ball ; the referee wont see it quickly enough...