Word: benched
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...kill his enemy with an axe; that failing, he invited him to dinner. Now, in athletic contests, he beats his rivals in the afternoon and then dines them in the evening; or, in the House of Commons, he shouts "traitor" and "liar" at his best friend on the opposite bench and then after the session walks out with him arm in arm. The Yale and Harvard track teams last summer experienced more than a touch of that social grace which the Englishman unites with his most hostile athletic endeavors...
Babson opened the game in the box for Harvard, but a triple, a double, and a single drove him to the bench at the end of the first inning. He was replaced by McLaughlin, Wigglesworth taking the latter's place in left field. The hits in this inning netted two runs for Vermont. Harvard tied the score in its half of the same inning...
After graduation from College Judge Lowell spent three years in the Law School, and then entered the active practice of law. He served for three years in the state legislature, in which he held important positions on various committees. In 1898 he was appointed to the District Court bench, and in 1905 became justice of the United States Circuit Court. Judge Lowell was for several years a member of the Board of Overseers, previous to becoming a Fellow of the Corporation, a position which he was still holding. He was also a trustee of the Peabody Museum...
...Massachusetts, two Presidents and one Acting President of Harvard, three presidents of other colleges, six judges of the United States Courts and of State Supreme Courts, one United States Supreme Court Justice; and, if one is to believe the current gossip, another is soon to sit on that bench. The first scholars of late years have been for the most part either educators of high rank or lawyers whose practice brought them into relations with great industrial affairs...
...series at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon on Fitton Field, Worcester. Hicks will pitch for Harvard, and Foley will probably be in the box again for Holy Cross. In the absence of Coach Pieper, W. D. Dexter, captain of the nine in 1907, will direct the team from the bench...