Word: break
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...nought remains but gently break the news...
...years. The faults by which both the Princeton and Yale games were lost are such as may be corrected next year if attended to early in the season. The fact that the Yale men outweighed us, man for man, in almost every case, and yet were unable to break through our line, seems to prove that size is not an absolutely necessary element in the composition of the Team. Our rushers were as good as, if not better than, any that Harvard has ever sent into the field, and, although improvement in catching the ball might have added...
When the red mists of morning break...
...scenes probably described. No sooner thought of than executed! (The paraphrase is my own.) In this way I spent the three hours profitably and agreeably. Next day came the Greek paper. We had been pleasantly informed by a professor that there would be one piece for us to break our heads against. I searched diligently through the paper, but came to the conclusion that all the extracts were equally well adapted for that praiseworthy purpose. Despairing of understanding anything in their paper, I resolved that the examiners should understand nothing in my book. So, being acquainted with Choctaw (a language...
...that, with the inducement offered in the Echo Prize Medal, several of them will be bettered at the approaching Spring Meeting; and as, however wisely the judges may decide, it would be difficult to give a correct decision as to the respective merits of a man who happened to "break" the record in the Mile Run, for example, and one who secured the Running High Jump, it would seem that dissatisfaction is likely to ensue in the awarding of the trophy. The suggestion therefore may not seem out of place, that the medal be awarded to any man who beats...