Word: foothold
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...team got eight inches on the drop, one of the '90 team losing his foothold and carrying the whole team with him. After three minutes the '89 team increased their advantage to 11 inches; but '90 got some of it back before time was called. '89 won by 8 1-2 inches...
...hope to become members of the Mott Haven team as long-distance runners, no better opportunity for increasing their powers of endurance could be afforded them. The interest evinced in hare and hounds during the past three years is sufficient proof that the exhilarating sport has obtained a firm foothold here, and, with a proper display of energy on the part of the athletic management, the first run ought to be held early next week...
...spending our surplus in the purchase of the national debt, but the blame of this lies with Senator Sherman himself, who funded this debt so that it is irredeemable except at a high premium. In answer to the charge that English merchants have spent money to get a foothold in our market, Mr. White said that in twenty-five years of close connection with tariff legislation he never knew of a shilling that was thus expended. Mr. Sherman also says that whoever favors lower duties opposes protection and favors foreigners, yet the strongly-protectionist First Congress thought average duties...
...part of the north entry of Hollis. The society soon outgrew these rooms, and in 1876 moved to its present apartments on Brattle street. Dramatic entertainments are of frequent occurrence in the club. The enthusiasm of its members, in regard to its interests, insures for the club a strong foothold among college societies and a continuance of its present prosperity...
...sentiments expressed in the communication published to-day relative to the extension of the Christmas vacation, are opinions which are daily gaining a firmer foothold in the minds of all undergraduates. In proportion as the number of students come to Harvard from the far West, the more does it seem that the faculty should acknowledge the fact by granting a longer duration of the Christmas recess. The faculties of other colleges, although suffering rather severely from conservatism, have, notwithstanding, had enough foresight, progress and liberality to recognize truths which have failed to receive attention here. The vacations given at Harvard...