Word: timed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...look how Marie's muscle shows in evening dress, since she has been pitching for the Nine; really, she ought to wear a fichu. Jack's dress is too elaborate; since he's been in College House he spends all his time in prinking. By the by, I'm going to make you give up that course in Juvenal; I shall never let my brother take it. The Deaness can change you to French 2 under that pretty French instructress, - Gustave Droz and Alphonse Daudet...
...uniform of the association, for instance, presents some difficulties to gentlemen not accustomed to protean changes in the circus-ring. The accomplished Mr. Robinson, who wore some fourteen waistcoats and any number of unmentionables, would perhaps be equal to the feat of wearing at one and the same time knee-breeches, trunks, and drawers, but an ordinary mortal, who has hitherto contented himself with two thicknesses of nether integuments, would find the garments so liberally provided by the association an embarras de richesse...
...University Crew was on the river for the first time last Friday...
...regatta on the Passaic was the best ever held in America" (Times); "in fact, there never was a better managed regatta on these waters" (Herald); "though the crowd was great, - about forty thousand according to estimate, - not a disorderly person was seen, and the races started promptly on time" (Tribune); "all that can be said of the arrangements by the executive committee can be summed up in one word, - perfection" (Star); "it will be long remembered by the inhabitants of Newark as one of the grandest events in her history" (Turf, Field, and Farm); "taking the opinion of veteran oarsmen...