Word: block
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Simmons, 3 Little's Block...
...sale. - Desk and furniture suitable for a student's room. Apply to janitor of Little's Block...
...sale. - Desk and furniture suitable for a student's room. Apply to janitor of Little's Block...
...sale. - Desk and furniture suitable for a student's room. Apply to janitor of Little's Block...
...energies are bent towards perfecting themselves in that portion of the game. "Doing the net act" is the popular means to this end. They have a net about eight feet high, stretched across a portion of the ball field, and before this the entire nine stand and endeavor to "block" the curved balls that their fellow collegians put in to them. Many men can be found in college, outside the regular team, who have very good curves and shoots, and it is to the practice received in this way that the Harvard boys attribute all the hard-bitting quarries...