Word: awkward
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...really unfit for any case of a serious disease. The rooms are few and small there are no conveniences or comforts and only a very small number of patients can be accommodated. If there should be a serious outbreak of any kind we would be placed in an awkward position. What we need and what should be provided is a respectable hospital, large enough to accommodate a fair number of men and provided with facilities for their comfort. We do not need an expensive building, but a wooden hospital large and convenient and well arranged may some day prove necessary...
Mayor Matthews says the Republicans are afraid of statistics. The Republican party has not sunk so low as to imprison a statistican who told some awkward truths at an inopportune moment. Furthermore, the four Democrats who spoke at the Democratic meeting in Sanders Theatre gave no statistics what-soever. Mr. Guild then gave figures showing the increase of imports and exports of 1892 over 1890, and the decrease of the duty per capita...
Rustin at third base, is new in that position. He does not as yet play the position as he should, but will improve with practice. He is quick to field ground balls and throws fairly well to first base. Is awkward in catching thrown balls and touching the runner. He is a weak batter and ordinary base runner...
...College Kodaks with one exception are the usual collection of more or less consciously awkward literary poses. The exception will be recognized as clever. It borders on good morals - but to quote the paragraph in question one may know perfectly well what that means and still not be able easily to define it. It is the best expression of the risque spirit which has been periodically showing up in the Advocate since last year, that has yet appeared...
...ought to be expected of a class so large as this that it could get a crew that would average more than 150 pounds, as is the present outlook. Several of the men who weigh well do not show much ability to row well. They are slow and very awkward - some of them, and must give their places to lighter and better men, unless they show greater improvement. Some of the men are doing very well, and show that we shall have a good light crew if obliged to trust to so little strength. Below are the men as they...