Word: fell
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...nothing by a rush. Harvard's rush line stood up to their work in better style and enabled Lee, assisted by Trafford's blocking, to score a ouchdown. No goal. Score 18-0. One minute The ball was badly fumbled when passed and rolled toward Andever's goal. Dean fell on it and carried it across the line. Goal. Score 24-0, 3 minutes. Cranston downs his man, Andover kicks and Trafford gains ten yards by rushing. Upton breaks through and scores from centre of field. Goal. Score 0-0. Harvard's good pass and Harding's rush with Trafford...
...Question for the evening was then taken up, Resolved, that Commissioner Tanner should have been retained in office. Mr. G. B. Woomer opened the debate for the affirmative and stated that it was his duty to defend a much abused man, and he proposed to show that be fell in the performance of his duty, and that the causes of his downfall were two in number; small pensions, and the rerouting of pensions...
...then referred to his own class of fifty-three members of whom 10 per cent. used intoxicating liquors, a much smaller proportion than the average class of today. None acquired the habit after leaving college, but those who had already formed the habit in college soon fell into confirmed drunkenness. It is during youth then, between 17 and 25, that a man's habits are formed. At that time he often has great confidence in himself that he will not transgress the limit which he calls soberness, but gradually he becomes more and more entangled until he reaches the border...
...second leading idea was the transmigration of souls. The Hindoos were lead by the natural scenery and life around to ask how animals learned to live unless by former experience. Mr. Arnold then related an anecdote of a child who fell and dropped some milk. The mother running to the child attributed the fall not to the carelessness of the child but to some mischief the child had done in its previous existence. The doctrines of this religion penetrates even to the daily life, that is in regard to marriages. Of the two hundred millions of people, there...
...showing would hardly have been so poor had she not been unfortunate. In the bicycle race her man took a header in the last lap, in the mile run her leading man was taken ill and had to be carried off, and in the 220-yards dash, Ellis fell within six feet of the finish with the Andover man just abreast...