Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other. He won the first two sets handily. In the third, Lee braced, playing his backhanded shots with good effect, and took the set. At the beginning of the fourth set, both players struggled hard for the lead. The first game was deuce and vantage at least a dozen times. The rest of the set was a long, close struggle, but Shaw won by pretty placing...
...Wadsworth, who has recently been appointed State geologist of Michigan, is a native of Maine and a graduate of Bowdoin College, class of 1869. For a dozen years he has been connected with the Agassiz Museum and from Harvard in 1879, received the degree of doctor of philosophy...
Diligent inquiry has revealed to us the pleasant information that up to date the manager of the freshman nine has actually arranged for the large number of half-a-dozen baseball games, all of which are to be played on Saturdays. Overwork is not usually the bane of freshmen baseball managers, but perhaps the present one seems an exception. It is interesting, though perhaps a trifle provoking, to know that no games whatever have yet been arranged for other days of the week. Such laxity is certainly deserving of the severest censure. The baseball season has now been open...
...former years, and will probably not be wanting this year, even without professional practice. The nine deserves much credit for the splendid work it is doing, but at the same time it is certain that its play would be better if it had begun the season with half a dozen defeats from stronger teams...
...Harvard?" says: "If he will live closely, carefully, yet with full regard to all that is required, he may do so, with nearly half his class, on not more than $800." Again the author apologizes for making a grade as low as $600, saying that only half-a-dozen men are probably included in it; while Professor Palmer calculates that almost one-quarter of each class spend between $450 and $650. As to the four upper grades, it seems hardly worth while to analyze so closely the expenses of "hardly more than a quarter" of the class, when the other...