Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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King started the eighth in the most forcible way, a home run over in left field almost out of the grounds. Young knocked a high fly, and Princeton almost ran over the field in their excitement. Hallowell not in the least disturbed caught the ball. Mackenzie again started the cheering with a three base hit, and scored on a passed ball. Humphreys struck out. Wright and Brooks both got their bases on balls, and Trenchard was hit by a pitched ball. The Princeton cheers at this point were beyond description. Guild came to the bat and did his level best...
...yards was run in one heat and as there were so many men in the race it was almost impossible for the low limit men to get through the field...
...almost every event the scratch men were too heavily handicapped, and were unable to get even a place...
...CRIMSON bulletin board, upon which was posted the score by innings of the Harvard-Princeton ball game, attracted almost as much attention and interest as did the games and great enthusiasm was shown by every one when it was seen that Harvard was winning the game...
...period in which the examinations come, the days begin to grow warm by half-past ten or so, and sometimes it becomes oppressively hot as early as ten even, and the gain of half an hour coming in the cool of the morning will at times be almost equivalent to an actual addition. Any men who have sweltered through the half hour from twelve to half-past, on a hot June day, trying to concentrate their thoughts on work, and succeeding in coming to a realizing sense of an inordinate buzzing in their brain, will receive the change with inexpressible...