Word: weapons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...republican, but was rejected by that party on account of his personal ambition. He was then forced to throw himself into the arms of his former opponents, and his successes have been due to conservative votes, and not to his personal following. The conservatives only use him as a weapon against the republicans, and are ready to desert him at any moment...
...matches are a source of pleasure to many undergraduates, and tend to enlarge the field of general athletics. The CRIMSON hopes to be able to put a nine into the field as usual, and means to work for the championship with might and mian. The pen is our accustomed weapon, but we are learning to handle bat and ball as well. But seriously, these games should be arranged, and we hope the managers of the base-ball association will see to it that the dates are set as soon as possible...
...wrist to the shoulder, was then padded and bandaged to three times its natural size, and the hand guarded by a thick leathern gauntlet. Lastly, a pair of spectacles, rimmed with metal, protected the eyes. The schlager, or duelling sword, is then placed in his hand - a nasty looking weapon about a yard and a quarter in length, quite blunt but for about ten inches at the end, where it is double-edged and as sharp as a razor. Thus accoutred, our hero, being the challenging party, walks slowly forward to the middle of the ground, his right arm, which...
...awaited with so much eagerness by the students, occurred last night. Instead of 5000 men in line there were scarcely half that number. A few of the Knights carried torches, others had transparencies bearing inscriptions, such as "Justice," "Anti-Monopoly," "We Own the Streets," "The Ballot is Our Only Weapon," etc. There was very little disturbance, and only one man arrested, the cause of some excitement...
Prof. Cook was fond of athletic and out-door sports and especially constant in tennis playing. He was an enthusiastic sportsman and it is a grim fatality that he should receive his death-wound from a weapon to the use of which he had long been accustomed...