Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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RUNNING HIGH JUMP.This was the most remarkable contest of the day. The ground from which the men jumped was hard clay, so that they did not slip, and gave them a from footing to spring from. The average jumping, as well as the record made, was the best ever seen at any contest in America. Six men, W. B. Page of Penn., The man who recently made a record of 5 feet, 9 inches, Harriman of Princeton, Richards of Columbia and Atkinson, Clark and Fogg of Harvard, were entered and all contested...
...improvement which they showed in their playing on Thursday over that in their game at Andover. The fielding was steady and would be creditable for any nine. The pitching was very careful and effective, and the catcher backed it up very well. Had it not been for a slip in the last inning, the Brown men would have gone home blanked in every inning. Let us hope that, in the game today, when they play the Brown freshmen on their own grounds, they will show up as well, and come home victorious...
...southern part of Virginia with a smaller force. The supreme command of the federal forces and movements was in the hands of Gen. Grant. The plan devised was for Grant, with the army of the Potomac to push Lee backward and hold his attention while Butler should slip in and capture Richmond. There were several defects which the lecturer enumerated clearly. During the winter of 1863-64 Lee had remained encamped opposite the army of the Potomac near the Rapidan River...
...local column is less interesting to the students of Harvard, than are the columns of the Yale News and Cornell Sun to the men in those colleges. It would be but little trouble for a man who hears some fact of interest to others to write it upon a slip of paper with his name and drop it into one of our boxes, and it would be a favor duly appreciated by the editors in charge of our local column...
...opera. I must say the young persons are a little forward; a little embarrassing it is to be alone here, especially as I have forgotten a good deal of my Arabic. Don't you think, my dear fellow, you and I could manage to give them the slip? Run away from them, eh?" He uttered a timid little chuckle, and at that moment an innumerable host of hours began a ballet d'action illustrative of a series of events in the career of the Prophet. It was obvious that my poor uncomplaining old friend was really very miserable. The "thornless...