Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...curve delivery in base-ball pitching, says the Philadelphia Press, was the greatest change ever introduced into the game, and in these days, when an old-time straight pitcher would be knocked out of the box in one inning, there are a good many claimants for the credit of originating it. College men, with the exception of those from Harvard, always insist that Avery brought it to light at Yale, while the Harvard men, who naturally would refuse to see a curve of two feet in a Yale pitcher's delivery, incline to the opinion that Mann, of Princeton...
...Saturday the club held another most successful run. The meet was announced to be for a two days run, to Newburyport on Saturday and to return from there on Sunday. Arrangements had been made beforehand with the hotel and a box had been reserved for the H. B. C. at the theatre...
...Registrar requests that all juniors, sophomores and freshmen should deposit at once in the Dean's box their petitions concerning attending church at home on Sundays...
...attacking the character of their opponents. On the day appointed for the voting a government commissioner takes charge of the polls, assisted by certain of the citizens of the district who he invites. The polls are then opened and each voter steps up and deposits his ballot in the box, has his name scratched on the check list and then retires to give place to another. The check lists, it may be said, are made out two weeks beforehand, and are open to public inspection. The voting begins at 10 A. M., and at 6 P. M. the polls...
Students wishing to dispose of partly worn clothing will receive highest cash price by leaving order at Lyons. Ask for order box, Lyceum Building, Billiard Hall...