Word: bottomed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard was extremely weak, the hits of our players being made mainly in the games with Princeton. Five Yale players and one Princeton man rank, in the average of base hits, higher than our heaviest batsman, Willard; while the majority of the names of Harvard players appear at the bottom of the list. McConkey, the weakest batsman of the Yale team, ranks ahead of six of Harvard's players. This lack of ability to bat may be considered the chief cause of our defeat last June...
...pure English that editorials of his have attracted the attention of expresident Andrew D. White. Mr. White characterized them as excellent examples of a cultured style. There is no reason why a college man should not make a good journalist, if he is content to begin at the bottom and learn those details of the business which can be secured nowhere except in a newspaper office and which are essential to subsequent success...
...ends are balanced by piers near the shore and anchored firmly on the shore. The most common form of bridge in America is the straight Warren girder bridge. In Europe, the single bow-string bridge, arched on one side, and the double bow-string bridge, arched both top and bottom, are more common. The lecturer concluded by showing photographs of a large number of bridges, including those at Brooklyn, Harlem, Poughkeepsie and Niagara, besides several in Scotland and France...
...come and were doing their best to take the bowl to Medical Hall. When the college men saw that the Meds were gaining steadily they combined their forces. With united vigor they hurled themselves against the advancing phalanx. But in vain! On and on it moved until the bottom of the stone steps leading to Medical Hall had been reached. Here the hottest fighting of the day was done. The college men collected their forces at the top of the embankment and charged from above, creating great slaughter among medical hats...
Never before in the history of Yale has there been such an interest taken in field athletics. The enthusiasm awakened four years ago when the Yale field was first used has steadily increased. Instead of being at the bottom in track athletics Yale now leads all her opponents. The improvement has been a gradual one, developing a little year by year, till in '87 five first prizes were won by Yale men at Mott Haven, and at last the cherished cup became Yale's. Since that time the interest has not been allowed to lag for a moment...