Word: strongly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...ladies, the uninitiated (and your correspondent is apparently among the number) suppose it to belong to the genus croquet. Whoever wishes to remove this impression has only to try a game on the next hot day, and see whether he does not get as much exercise as a strong, healthy man requires. Any form of outdoor exercise can be taken easily; rowing itself, if one rows slowly enough, is anything but hard work; but just as a severe pull on the river is violent exercise, so is a good game of lawn-tennis. To call a game effeminate because...
...pleased to announce in our columns this week the excellent record which our Nine has made during vacation. Three victories have been gained, and a single defeat sustained, in a match with a strong professional team, possessing one of the finest pitchers in the country; in this game, moreover, the Nine made but three errors. During the past week the new men have filled their positions with credit, and the veterans have maintained their well-earned reputations of last year. It is to be hoped that a better support will be given to the Nine this spring, especially when games...
...weak that strong ship...
...recently arrived, have but lately become acquainted with such a representative; and he has appeared to me to be an evil outgrowth of the marking system, - in fact, a strong argument in favor of abolishing that system...
...were read at the Harvard Club dinner in New York. In an explanatory note, Dr. Holmes tells us that the original seal of the College was "a shield, with three open books, bearing the word Veritas." This motto was afterwards changed, probably during the presidency of Increase Mather, a strong Congregationalist, to "Christo et Ecclesiae." The object of the sonnets is best shown by their author's own remarks...