Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lively stroke which was responded to in fair form by the other men in the boat. The men rowed down to the first bridge, and then returned, continuing their course up-stream. As they passed the boat-house the individual faults showed glaringly. There was bad time in the waist, while the men in the bow seemed to have no conception of how to turn their oars on the recover. No one but stroke and seven pulled his oar through to the finish. As '89 disappeared up the river '88 was seen coming through the lower bridge. There was evidenced...
Chase, '88, is in bad health and will probably be unable to pull on the '88 tug-of-war. Crocker has taken Purdon's place at number...
...righteousness are characterized by bestiality and all the lower forms of vice, but there is a still larger class who have lost all power to distinguish between right and wrong in matters that are considered generally of very little moment; but this insensibility to spiritual things is fully as bad as is that which is popularly called vice...
...died after the short existence of one year. The last number, which appeared in March, 1811, contained a farewell address of the editors, in which they complained that the cause of the failure of the magazine was due to jealousy and envy, "in a place too, where the bad passions should never come, in the sacred groves of Academus, where we have witnessed the emotions of an envious spirit, which has shown itself an unnatural foe to its literary seniours...
Substitute - Never gets a good seat. Rushes badly. Keeps no grip on his oar. Settles at full reach, and also at finish. Keeps bad time. Should learn not to lose his temper when being coached...