Word: backed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...field back of the Scientific School has been levelled and laid out for a ball-ground, and the seats are put up. Coupon-tickets, securing the holders admission to the games, will be furnished to subscribers, as was done last year...
...games in Boston during the recess were very finely played. The last was one of the most interesting and exciting games ever played upon those grounds. By a glorious hit in the ninth inning, victory was snatched from the very jaws of defeat only to be quickly thrown back by three or four unfortunate errors. But notwithstanding their good success so far, the Nine has yet plenty of work to do. They will have worthy opponents in some of the college nines, and must struggle hard if they would not mar the fine record of last year...
...saying as I came back, - "no, I don't think you 've rightly chosen your path in life. You 're scarcely fitted for the ministry. Spirituality - you see, - reverence, veneration, very small and there 's development here," passing his hand over the back of Renardy's head and neck; "that the Boston folks, you know, don't like in their ministers, though it's popular enough down in Brooklyn. You 'd make a good soldier, now, - large nose...
...that time, what with the circle of delighted faces constantly around him and the humanizing effect of so much music, he will have recovered all the innocence that used to be his, when, at the age of six, he tagged around after the superior being who carried on his back a box full of pretty tunes...
...opposite of what I have told him. If I say that I am going away to pass Sunday, and do not want a fire lighted, he puts himself to a great deal of pains to keep the fire blazing all day. And if I tell him I shall be back at a certain time, I am sure, upon my arrival, to find a desolate hearth...