Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Little attention was paid this contest by the public, mention of it being found in only one Boston paper, and that confined to a scant ten lines announcing the game and ending with this single sentence of general criticism of the affair. "There was a large crowd and much enthusiasm." In spite of the lack of general interest which it aroused, this game on May 15, 1874, marked the beginning of a football regime which has reached its highest point before 49,000 spectators today...
...race, to take action on the proposed changes. The event last year was much in the nature of an experiment, and the actual competition showed where there might be improvement in the future. The main idea is still adhered to, that of making the games anything but a championship affair, and the recommendations all tend to this fact...
...University came back in the fifth and made one run through Abbot's double and Coolidge's single, but the real rally was postponed until the ninth. Aside from the closeness of the score and the nerve-racking postponement of victory, the game was an extremely spectacular and intense affair. Reilly and Hunter, of Yale, contributed to the features with marvelous catches. In the second inning, with two down and the bases clogged with University players Abbot slammed a liner toward left field which looked good for two runs, but Reilly made a great leap in the air and stopped...
...hardest faced by the Administration. The policy of Seward, secretary of State, seemed to be to embroil the United States abroad, hoping thereby to bring about a reunion at home. Troubled by the actions of his chief minister, Lincoln was plunged into deeper difficulties by the Trent Affair, where Captain Wilks of the United States Navy boarded the British ship "Trent" and took off Mason and Slidell, Confederate commissioners to England. This inexcusable act aroused great enthusiasm in America, and Lincoln made his first bad mistake by giving in to public opinion and not immediately sending the commissioners to England...
Greatest among the causes of the nine's success is its power at the bat. At present there are four men hitting over .360, while the team as a whole has an average of .242. The pitching has been largely a one-man affair, for Mahan has borne the brunt of all the big games. However, Whitney's no-hit game against Williams has shown that he may be depended upon...