Word: straight
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Tuesday afternoon a picked eleven played a matched game of foot-ball with a picked fifteen, and won three straight games. This match was to enable the captain to choose the University Eleven. On Thursday a match was played between the Eleven and a picked eleven, consisting of gentlemen from Boston and vicinity, most of whom were graduates. The University Eleven won the match in three straight games...
...ablution - is spurned with magnificent consistency. The contents of his fingernails would give interesting and engrossing employment for a couple of days to the average chemist. His hair, if it chance to be curly, is allowed to curl unchecked over his manly brow; if nature has made it straight, it wanders forlornly about in every direction until some compassionate barber, who is moderate in his charges, mows it down with unsparing shear. From these indications his general appearance may be imagined...
...paper containing the propositions of the people of New London, which were of a most generous and satisfactory nature. The final action of Convention in favor of Saratoga was largely due to the fear that the river at New London would not be wide enough to give a straight course to all the contestants in the next regatta. Saratoga's propositions were presented by Mr Ames of the S. R. A. in a much less able and succinct manner, and the Convention went into committee of the whole with closed doors. After a lengthy discussion the committee decided...
...course was a straight-away one, three miles in length. Precisely at three o'clock, as the starting-gun was fired, two thousand eight hundred and ninety-five oars were dipped simultaneously into the water with a unison that was truly grand...
...early age, gives promise of future excellence, there is an element of imperfection or of extravagance, - something to hide or to excuse. Mr. Eliot's character was wonderfully complete; his life was remarkable for its consistency and harmony. Remembering now what that life was, - that its course was straight, that it was not affected by caprice or by sin, - we feel how out of place any attempt to describe it here or to deepen its influence would be. We can only pay it the simple tribute of our affection and respect...