Word: shadows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Probably there was scarcely a person in the crowd of 1000 that gathered to see the game last Saturday who was in any way prepared for the poor exhibition given by our team. Weight gave us the game it is true, but there is not a shadow of a doubt that in point of skill, in passing and kicking, we were fairly out-played. From the kick-off Harvard, carried the ball to Pennsylvania's goal and in 2 minutes Kendall secured a touchdown, completing our score, for Austin failed to kick the goal though the ball was almost directly...
...asked to furnish a system of co-education, and she is not asked to take up a new and untried experiment. The Annex merely asks a recognition and permanent opportunity for the continuation of a work which has been carried through with success for four years under the shadow of our university. No revolutionary policy is asked of us: no changes in the methods of instruction. To quote from the report...
...Colney was doing. All was dark and silent, however; and I was just heaving a sigh of relief as we rose to the top of the opening, when, quick as a serpent's tongue, a spade-handle, with a long knife lashed to the end, darted out of the shadow, and made a thrust at the rope where it was already worn almost through...
From conversation with some of the jurors in the Guiteau case, it is learned that what has been said all along in regard to the prisoner ruining his own case is true. There has hardly existed, at any time, the shadow of a doubt as to Guiteau's sanity and responsibility for his crime...
...shadow - in the firelight of her eyes