Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Vesper Service Thursday afternoon was fully as well attended as the first one last Thursday. The music was as follows: "I will lift up mine Eyes," by Dr. J. C. Whitfield, sung by the whole choir; Meyer's "The Lord is My Shepherd," and "Lo! I am with You," by the Ruggles Street Quartet...
...season, has signed with the St. Pauls for next year at $225 a month. He is a junior in the scientific department of Dartmouth College and a resident of Hanover, his father being janitor of some of the college halls. The family are in humble circumstances, and the big lift his skill as a twirler has given him this year, and will give him next, will enable him to graduate from college free from debt...
...Sears fumbles, Butler loses ground, and Boyden does not get started. Back ten yards. Boyden and Fletcher each make ten yards. Sears gains no ground, and Boyden stumbles, losing a little. Back ten yards. Fletcher breaks his collar bone in his last rush, so that he is unable to lift his hand to his shoulders, but he pluckily keeps on playing as there is no one to put in. Peabody runs around the Yale rush line, knocking off Wallace and Gill, but he is downed before he gets more than ten yards actual gain. Sears gains ten yards...
Early in the morning there was such a heavy mist that it was thought doubtful whether or no the races would be rowed on time. But all doubts on this subject were dispelled as the fog began to lift at about nine o'clock, leaving a clear course to the contestants...
...cotton into which it curls itself, and its chief and favorite diet is the common house-fly. Professor Garman also has some salamanders and lizards in captivity which betray some intelligence, though the former is very muscular and a trifle ill-tempered, and resists vigorously an attempt to lift him from his nest of wet moss. The collection of reptilia in the Agassiz Museum, although it cannot be seen under the favorable auspices which our correspondent was as fortunate as to obtain, is nevertheless remarkably well worth a visit, for next to that of the Smithsonian Institution...