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    "verified_text": "botori, a japanese game played at the naval, military and other schools, by two sides of equal number, usually about one hundred, each of which defends a pole about 8 ft. high firmly set in the ground, the poles being about 200 yds. distant from each other. the object of each party is to overthrow the adversaries' pole while keeping their own upright. pulling, hauling and wrestling are allowed, but no striking or kicking. the players resort to all kinds of massed formations to arrive at the enemies' pole, and frequently succeed in passing over their heads and shoulders one or more comrades, who are thus enabled to reach the pole and bear it down unless pulled off in time by its defenders. a game similar in character is played by the sophomore and freshman classes of amherst college (massachusetts), called the \"flag-rush.\" it was instituted at the instance of the faculty to take the place of the traditional \"cane-rush,\" a general _melee_ between the two classes for the ultimate possession of a stout walking-stick, which became so rough that students were frequently seriously injured. in the \"flag-rush\" a small flag is set upon a padded post about 6 ft. high, and is defended by one class while the other endeavours, as at botori, to overthrow it. if the flag is not captured or torn down within a certain time the defending side wins. botoshani (_botosani_), the capital of the department of botoshani, rumania; on a small tributary of the river jijia, and in one of the richest agricultural and pastoral regions of the north moldavian hills. pop. (1900) 32,193. botoshani is commercially important as the town through which goods from poland and galicia pass in transit for the south; being situated on a branch railway between dorohoi and on the main line from czernowitz to galatz. it has extensive starch and flour mills; and botoshani flour is highly prized in rumania, besides being largely exported to turkey and the united kingdom. botoshani owes its name to a tatar chief, batus or batu khan, grandson of jenghiz khan, who occupied the country in the 13th century. there are large colonies of armenians and jews.",
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