Word: fit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...better than Murray's. He was a capital Myles na Coppaleen, good-hearted and cheery and free of manner, and free of mannerisms. His make-up was distinctly better than that of any other player. Perhaps Mr. Wolff's look of the servile blackguard, Danny Mann, was almost as fit. His likeness to a cringing, cowardly villain was not all the effect of a few daubs of grease paint topped with a very black wig and a sneak thief's cap; there was something about it that displayed clever facial expression...
...unusual interest to those undergraduates who are contemplating journalism as a profession. Littell does not hesitate to say that journalism is not "hospitable," and that it is not the realm of the pioneer or the originator, but he does insist that by certain forms of practice, the undergraduate may fit himself the better to cope with the difficulties which will beset him in his first necessary duties...
Earned run - Brown 1. Stolen bases - Rand 2. First base on balls - Dean 2, Highlands, Paine, Robinson. First base on errors - Brown 4, Harvard 3, Fit by pitched ball - Donovan, Robinson - Wild pitches - Summersgill 2, Highlands 1. Struck out - Bustard, Summersgill, Millard, Winslow, Scannell, Hayes, Paine, Wrenn. Double plays - Bustard (unassisted). Umpires - Burns and Quinn. Time...
SOUTHAMPTON, June 5. - The steamer Paris, from New York, arrived here this evening, after a splendid passage. Among the passengers were the representatives of Cornell University, who are to take part in the Henley rowing regatta. The college oarsmen were never in more fit condition and they are very sanguine of success. Several of the party were seasick during the first days of the voyage, but they soon recovered and suffered no bad effects. Rope-jumping was indulged in on the passage to give the men exercise and keep them to weight. Their meals, which were selected for them, were...
Neither Winslow nor Wrenn were in fit condition to play and in the fielding practice McVey of the '98 nine and Adams, captain of the '95 nine were tried at third base, while Dean covered second. Otherwise the team played as usual...