Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There will be no more shoots this fall. They will be resumed about April 1. It is hoped that permission will be granted to move the club house back over the ditch to the southwest corner of Soldiers Field. In that case the rapid firing system will be inaugurated, and the traps concealed behind the embankment...
...England" mentions "foote ball playing and other devilishe pastimes" which were played on Sunday. Among his words on foot ball are these: "For dooth not everyone lye in waight for his adversarie seeking to overthrowe him and picke him on his nose, though it be on hard stones, or ditch or dale, or valley or hill, or whatever place soever it be he careth not, so he has him downe, and he that can serve the most of this fashion he is counted the only felow...
...novel, "The Naulahka," by Rudyard Kipling and Walcott Bolestier, the latter a well-known American now living in London. This is Mr. Kipling's first experience in collaboration, and the story is not only international in authorship but also in plot. It opens on the bridge of an irrigating ditch in a Western State, and at the close of the first instalment there is already an indication of a change of the scene to India. The motive of the story is the quest of an American, Nicholas Tarvin, for a celebrated necklace of jewels which hangs round the neck...