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...short but hard struggle, Dudley got his arms about his opponent's neck and won the fall. Time, 30s. In the second round, Dudley lifted Craig off his feet but could not get him on his back. A moment later Craig got a body hold on Dudley and threw him, the latter striking heavily on his side. The bout was given to Craig. Time...
...common), "she listened to his reasons," "she lifted her eyelids," "she soothed her fears," "she checked her curiosity," "she moved her chair," "she joined in his laugh" (very common), "she broke her usual custom," "she stretched her neck out of the window," "she took up a small candle," "she threw on a light shawl," "she roughened her wrinkles," "she listened to her bird," "she kindled a fire in the brazier...
After the concert a triumphant procession was formed, and to the stirring notes of "Yale Men Say," the line of march was taken up to the house of the Mayor. Here the serenade was interrupted by the appearance of that gentleman himself, who hospitably threw open his doors and invited all to come in. After a short entertainment of the societies in his house, the Mayor was bid "good-night," and with twenty-seven cheers the party returned to the hotel. For an account of the manner of this return, the meeting, disarming, restoration and pacification of the belligerant policeman...
...give you the length in parasangs of Xenephon's march to the sea; he can sketch for you a technical plan of Olympus; he can tell you the exact size of the sail-cloth in which Helen, the divine of women, was wrapped when the lily-like voiced ancients threw one to the other the winged word, as she passed them by; he can tell you who was the grandmother of Apollo; in fine he can tell you almost anything, but he is not a "bold, bad man." What is he, she, or it, then? Well, in the first place...
THROWING 56-POUND WEIGHT.The last event of the day was the throwing of the 56-lb. weight (distance and height). The contestants were H. B. Gibson, '88; D. C. Clark, '86; and D. B. Chamberlain, '86. Chamberlain threw both further and higher than his rivals, and easily won the event. He threw in length 21ft. 7in., and in height just 10ft. Best amateur record, distance 26ft. 3 1-4in., height, 11ft...