Word: shortest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...case the scent gives out, the hares shall drop the bags and make for home by the shortest route. On finding the bags the hounds may make for home as they please...
...account of the new regulations in regard to registering, this morning will see all of the students back in Cambridge. Today is the beginning of the last and shortest term of the year, a term that is by far the pleasantest as well as the most filled with hard work, both in study and athletics. This season is especially the athletic season of the year. It is the time when the real work of the year must be done, the faults of the winter and spring corrected, when every effort must be made to wrest victory from our rivals...
...tobacco, while 25 per cent. of the Sheffield men smoke. The heaviest man in the class of '92 weighs 200 pounds, against 192 1-2 pounds in '91 last year. The lightest man weighs 86 1-2 pounds. The tallest man is 6 ft., 1 5-8 in.; the shortest man, 4 ft., 9 5-8 in., which is about three-fourths of an inch less than the corresponding measurement in '91, and is probably the shortest measurement recorded in several years. The oldest is 26 years and 6 months, against 25 years and 8 months last year. The youngest...
...case the scent gives out, the hares shall drop the bags and make for home by the shortest route. On finding the bags the hounds may make for home as they please in a "fast" hunt; in a "slow" hunt they shall wait the word from the master to "break." In a "slow" hunt, if, for any reason, the bags cannot be found, the signal to "break" may be given by the master, with the consent of a majority of the pack...
...interesting to note that neither age, weight or height have any decided advantage, the oldest crews having won six times out of twelve, the lightest seven times out of twelve, and the shortest six times out of ten. It would seem that the qualities that bring success are not to be mathematically computed...