Word: peering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Griswold. Defence W. Peer...
...Peer Defence Field. Weed...
Hockey, or hawkey, as it was originally spelt, is an old English game. It is played in this country to a limited extent, but not so much as it deserves. When played on ice, the only place where all its possibilities can be brought out, it is fully the peer of football or lacrosse. It requires as much quickness of eye and hand and I may say foot, as either of the games mentioned, but at the same time a learner can enjoy it as well as an old hand. Coming, as it does, in the winter, it will conflict...
...ball is that they are "understanded of the people." A game that is the game of only one class, or at most of only one section of the community, can never excite the enthusiasm or acquire the national dignity enjoyed by one where, by a touch of nature, prince, peer and peasant are made kin. Lawn tennis is exactly calculated to be a game of the latter sort. It is fit for old and young, for men and women, for the strong and the weak. It expands the lungs, strengthens the muscles, improves the condition and takes off "weight...
Here is the way the appearance of things at Harvard strikes a preparatory student. A writer on the Exonian has been peering around and thus records his impressions: "Between the hours of four and five P. M., Hemenway presents an animated appearance. In the main hall every pully, every rope has its somebody tugging and pulling with might and main. Neither has the Harvidian, whom a few moments ago we saw on the streets the ideal Adonis, that dignified appearance as he scampers about in his semi-nude, airy costume. Down in the basement the dull thud of falling tenpins...