Word: backed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...pitcher's box will be moved four feet further back than it has hitherto been. This will bring the rear of the box sixty feet from the plate...
...time and form, for so early in the season, are pretty fair. There is a general tendency throughout the boat to quicken the last part of the draw, and to go too far back...
...spirit in them. First, Paul as the theologian tells us that we have this spirit because we have come to know God, that the more we learn, the better we know how to appreciate Him. He then seems to feel that there is something more, that back of all this knowledge or ignorance there is a fund of experience-a universal recogni...
...rather than of the sky. In one of his works he has taken the family of Bougon Macquart and carried them on through one book after another in all their adventures, a thing which no writer since Balsac has attempted, and by this means he gives a back-ground of the world and time which most modern French writers fail...
...labored not for cattle and lands, but that he might see god, and when he saw all that he had given up coming back to him it was not as wages but as a reward for the self-sacrificing life which he had lived. We can not work for God for wages; the devil alone gives wages...