Word: half
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...those beings more than half ideal...
...HALF-MILE...
...Keystone Athletic Club Sports in Philadelphia, in the spring of 1877, so that the record cannot stand in the College Table. The best College record for the 1-4 mile, then, falls to E. J. Wendell, of Harvard, with a record of 53 1-2 seconds. Also, the half-mile record credited to Mr. Trumbull of Yale should instead be given to Mr. Colgate of Columbia, who ran in 2,05 at the Columbia Spring Games of 1877. The following corrections should therefore be made in this table up to June...
...come, and we have seen it. There were those who sneered at the superlative adjectives on the large red and blue posters; there were others who refused to believe that any show could equal Barnum's; but they all now agree that the posters, far from exaggerating, did not half express the wealth of this circus, and that it beat Barnum...
After them came a caravan of gorgeously caparisoned mules, dragging rich cages behind them In these were very rare specimens, collected, regardless of expense, from all quarters of the globe, and not half so savage as they ought to have been. Several prominent Freshman instructors were said to be in the cage with the foxes and wolves, but the reporter failed to wholly recognize them. They so resembled the real animals that their identification was rendered especially difficult...