Word: facts
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...play in the field can, in a measure, be accounted for by more than a week's lack of practice, caused by the many rainy days of the previous week. We much regretted the injury to her catcher which compelled his retirement from the game, - another example of the fact that misfortunes never come singly. We can only wish them better luck next time. A more extended commentary than the appended score will be unnecessary...
...know, if the sense carries you along. Read enough, and all will come as it came to you in English, without labor. But to accomplish this, do not hesitate in the beginning to read simple books, - Perrault's Contes de Fees, for instance, or Laboulaye's Contes bleus; in fact, books that contain just such talk as gave you the English vocabulary you now have...
...told that there is in ball playing and in boating a general rule which forbids contestants themselves to bet on the result of a game or race in which they are to play or row. This rule is based on what experience has shown to be a fact, viz. that when men bet on themselves, the additional excitement and nervousness interfere with their work; and in proportion to the amount of the bet is the extent of this interference. The more important the match, and the more exciting it is in itself, the more strictly is this rule...
...Trinity Tablet has just discovered that Herr Joachim has been made Oxford Professor of Music. It is sufficiently absurd to mention this fact of musical and general interest in a column headed "At other Colleges," but to do this two months behind time is certainly adding insult to injury...
...certainly did remember the name of Rumvill, but I could n't recollect that we had been exactly brothers there. In fact, I think I remember his lifting me up by the ears one recess; and he got licked for it, too, the cowardly dog. But still I asked him to sit down, and remarked that it was a long time since then...