Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...choice of window hangings. Now it may be said that it is not for all of us to be apostles of "sweetness and light," or even to be true disciples of Oscar Wilde; but it is possible for every man with a little care to keep his room clean and tidy, to put up a bit of fresh, pretty muslin over his windows, and at little or no expense to make the whole apartment attractive and pleasant both for himself and for all who may chance to call upon...
...batsman, Gunderson, had made the circuit of the bases. The score at the end was thus 15 to 2 in favor of Harvard. The work of Beaman and Wiestling in the field was very fine, their stops and throws being phenomenal. Winslow led at the bat with a clean record...
...fifth Foster led off with a clean hit. Wiestling fouled out. Beaman hit to Cook, and got his first on Foster's force-out at second. Winslow hit safely to left field, sending Beaman to second, but for some unaccountable reason, Beaman attempted to steal third, and was put out while nearly six feet from the base. For Brown, Gunderson got to third on errors by Willard and Allen, and a steal, but two flies and a strike-out prevented his scoring...
Harvard failed to score in the eighth, though Smith got his base on balls, and Foster also got on base by an error of Cook. For Brown, Cook crossed the plate amid wild excitement, on a base on balls, a wild pitch, a steal, and a clean hit by Cooper. Score...
Lyon, of Yale, in the Dartmouth game, made a clean hit of 450 feet, one of the longest ever made in New Haven...