Word: feint
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...base after this until the seventh inning, when base-hits by Thayer, Ernst, and Wright, aided by errors of Hunt and Cutts, gave two runs. Wigton reached second on a failure of Tyng to put him out on three strikes. Dodge struck to Nunn, who made an excellent feint at throwing to first and then threw to Latham, who put Wigton out at second; this play was very fine, and deserved the loud applause which it received. Harvard made one more run in the eighth inning on base-hits by Nunn, Fessenden, and Ernst, and errors by Furman and Cutts...
...single point, - this being, doubtless, the best method of attack, - and we should mass our strength on the point we expect to be attacked, thus leaving our whole domain open to the incursions of random, guerilla-like questions. But if the movement of the enemy is merely a feint, we are liable to be utterly conquered by his victorious march through a country only defended by its ordinary militia. It is this danger which makes most students averse to the plan of learning thoroughly any particular part of a course to the exclusion of the rest...