Word: distracting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...complicated, so confused, and covers so much ground, that no referee, however honest and determined, can see half of what is going on, especially since the judges, who were originally intended to help him in securing fair play, have developed into captains of their teams, and purposely distract his attention and increase his difficulties...
...have the added disadvantage of being so near the foot ball grounds as to be continually surrounded by confusion. There is nothing to prevent the balls from escaping into the road at either side, and the muckers, the curse of the yard, are always on hand to distract the player. To crown all the courts are of turf and consequently unfit for use, for a turf court without the best care and on a poor foundation soil is bound to be a failure...
...freshmen to engage in an uproarious entertainment in one of the largest dormitories while all the upper-classmen are busy in the depths of a semiannual grind. To have seventy lively young men running up and down stairs, or singing in a single room is a little apt to distract the minds of those less enjoyably engaged. At any other time of the year it could easily be put up with as an evidence of superfluous an animal spirits; but in examination time it is rather trying...
...very good, as the Crew is out of sight most of the time; but in the Gymnasium they would be closely watched if the opportunity were given. Of course it would not do to let the College at large into the rowing-room, as it would at least distract the attention of the men, but the windows at the north end of the rowing room might be glazed with transparent instead of ground glass. If this were done the curiosity of many men could be gratified, and at the same time any rowing man could learn a great deal...
...hour, he nearly got into a fight with our man, Jack Hardcase, who, as you know, is one of the most gentlemanly men that ever played on our eleven. You see Jack ran at Blazes when Blazes did not have the ball, and kicked his shins so as to distract his attention, and give our man, Drinkoff, a chance to make a touch-down; and, by Jove! I really thought for a minute that Blazes was going to hit him, as he probably would have done if somebody had not pulled him off; and the Harvard men would have backed...