Word: backed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...yesterday afternoon with about twelve men, who have hitherto been with the 'Varsity. It is the intention to identify the College team more closely with the 'Varsity than has hitherto been the custom. The 'Varsity pitchers will be lent to the College nine, and the team will be shifted back and forth pretty freely...
LOST, March 5, a lady's gold watch. Has monogram "S. A. McJ." on case. Reward if returned to 7 St. Paul street, Back Bay, Suite 1, Boston...
...most promising candidates for catcher are Buckman, Davis, Pote and Reid. All are fairly good back-stops and fair throwers but are rather uncertain hitters...
...adventures befalls him and a certain Princess Ottilie of Lausitz-Rothenburg. The tale reminds one slightly of "The Prisoner of Zenda," in the familiar relations which exist between the young English hero and the foreign princess, but here the resemblance stops. The story moves from Austria to England and back again, and introduces a number of striking characters in both countries...
...strength tests to be used in making up the total strength of any individual are: Strength of back, of legs, of right fore-arm, of left fore-arm, of lungs or one-twentieth of the capacity of the lungs, of upper arms (triceps) and chest, and of upper arms (biceps) and back...