Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...base-ball craze in Macon, Ga., has gone so far that the teachers in the schools entertain the pupils with anecdotes regarding the lives of members of the Detroit team. - Cincinnatti Enquirer...
...order to do anything at all with Yale, the hardest work is required. Thus far, in practice, their work has not been such as would warrant any high expectations of victory. It has been fairly good; but when one has said that, he has said all that can be said in their praise. Their batting is poor and this defect can be overcome only by constant practice. Their fielding has been good and this partially makes up for the lack of strong batsmen on the nine. '90 has a captain of experience and ability who will bring victory...
...forthcoming to carry on a needed competing line, the government takes the matter into its hands and builds a rival road. Competition in railroading is different from that in other lines of business. In the case of a store, if the proprietor reduces the prices on his goods so far as to lose money on them, he gets more trade, loses more money, end is speedy bankruptcy. In the case of railroads, the running expenses are about the same, no matter how much carrying trade they have. If, now, by lowering their rates to a losing point, they gain their...
...money coins, to divisions of time, space, etc.; and these technical applications are increased in number and in difficulty through the successive years of the grammar school, until for a large amount of so-called arithmetic the pupil gets comparatively little practice in the art of numbers. I am far from saying that the pupils of our public schools should not acquire a certain amount of useful information. The most familiar "tables" of lengths, weights, measures and coins may properly be given them, and they may advantageously be practiced in simple operations thereunder. But this whole matter of the technical...
...games the Columbia and Yale nines have played with the professionals so far. Yale has made much better scores...