Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thirty deep. The freshmen are helped to form by the juniors and many of the latter aid in filling up the rear. When the lines are fully formed, they advance slowly step by step until within a few paces of one another, when the leaders, drawing in a long breath make the decisive charge. The side that forces the other side backwards wins this part of the rush. The sophomores then proceed to a cross street near the grammar school lot, and form in a solid line, the front rank resting on the inner side of the cross-walk...
...more day of trial and then the whole college will breath a sigh of relief at the thought that the examinations have vanished from the face of the earth. For a space of four months gradually the thought of blue-books and of misery will fade from men's minds and leave them fresh to encounter the Finals...
...working faithfully. So every time, action in any sphere makes real the larger sphere in which we live. Long service of any master makes us feel the higher masteries and sets us free to serve them. The longer we live truly, in time the more we breathe the breath of eternity. The more largely we work in our speciality the more we enter into a sense of the divineness of all work, the more we are the brothers of all workers everywhere...
...devastating breath more merciless than that of the flames, the rough and searching blasts of our Boston east winds, found or developed in that young and devoted life the seeds of consumption, and before he had time to impress his character upon the community in which he had cast his lot, death took him off in the latter part of 1638. You know that by a will he had rendered it possible for the purpose of the infant Colony, which had been recorded two years before, to be carried out, - a will which no man has told...
...excitement became intense. Both nines were nerved up to their best, and batsmen were retired in quick order. The spectators held their breath as one nine after the other strove to bat out a run. Harvard proved the more fortunate, and in the fourteenth inning won the game. Wiestling hit safely, made a daring steal to second, took third on a wild pitch, and scored the seventh and winning run on Smith's drive to right field...