Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...show-case. I seized it and followed, but when I reached the street she had disappeared. Looking at the card I had picked up, I read, "Miss Rosalie Rosehorn, 323 Ham Street." I was disappointed at first, but after reflecting that Ham Street was situated in the English quarter of the city, the inhabitants of which, although descended from English workingmen, formed what they called the ancient aristocracy (?), I decided not to give up the search. I pondered several days over how I should try to meet her again, and at last decided to call at her house...
...field of play, puts it down on the ground in front of him and puts it in play (while on side) by - 1st, kicking the ball; 2nd, by snapping it back with the foot. The man who first receives the ball from the snap-back shall be called a quarter-back, and shall not then rush forward with the ball under penalty of a foul...
...WENDELL, '82, won easily the final heats of the 100-yards and quarter mile runs at the Rye A. C. Games on May 31, but as he had not been able to run the trial heats (owing to a dislocation of his elbow and wrist, which the doctor was setting when the trial heats were called), the first medals were both given to the second man, J. H. Rumner, of the Staten Island A. C., the Secretary of the Staten Island A. C., with a knowledge of the above facts, having entered a protest against Mr Wendell for not running...
...QUARTER-MILE...
Behind the quarter of a mile of these interesting sights came the pet of the whole show, - the baby elephant. It was named "Prayers," and was regarded as the spoilt child of the University. Fear-of-Public-Opinion bolstered its tottering steps on one side; rigid penalties - including suspension - performed this graceful office on the other. A choir - of one feeble-voiced, hired youth - walked in front, enticing it on by singing melancholy hymns. Altogether, it was a forlorn-looking creature...