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Word: fingered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...weak at the bat, and it will take hard individual work to bring them up to the necessary standard. The only feature of the game was the pitching of Oxford, who held the freshman down to four scattering hits in nine innings. In the fifth inning Sheldon injured his finger, and Whitely took his place behind the bat, while Wilson played centre field. Spaulding pitched for the freshman after the fifth inning. The score was as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Technology '91. 13, Harvard '92, 10. | 4/15/1889 | See Source »

...others perhaps belong to the ame period. Among the subjects treated are records of the loan of money, tithes and taxes, and offerings to the gods. The great Sippar temple seems to have carried on a large system of lending. One of the tablets exhibited still has the finger prints of the writer. One was a list of families, perhaps slave families. One beautifully written large fragment was a list of the names of men, it may be tax payers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Babylonian Books. | 4/2/1889 | See Source »

...design submitted by George H. Ford for the trophies for the '88 Yale crew consists of a ring in the form of an oar, shaped like a snake ring, with the blade resting on the outside of the finger and bearing in blue enamel Yale vs. Harvard. The owner's name and date will be cut on the inside of the ring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/13/1889 | See Source »

...picture would have a sky-rocketty effect, due to the introduction of the Princeton cheer, while that of '89 would have a lurid background and a leaden finish. McPherson established a good record for himself in the box, but Gallivan's three-bagger in the eighth knocked off a finger-nail and forced him to withdraw. Eighty-nine put in Downer in his place, after some little discussion, and the '88 men nearly knocked the ball to pieces. That eighth inning laid out the sophomores, for '88 got two three-baggers, a two-bagger and two singles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eighty-Eight Wins. | 6/1/1887 | See Source »

...present indications, Henshaw will catch in the game Saturday, and Campbell will play at third, although at present his finger is in a bad condition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 5/17/1887 | See Source »

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