Word: forfeit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Umpire Stafford broke through a knot of quarrelling players to forfeit the Colgate contest to Harvard, 9 to 0, last Saturday, he stopped a good baseball game. Until that inning F. B. Cutts '28 had held the visiting batters to two hits, and since the second had not allowed a runner to reach first...
Umpire Wilson's scant supply of patience was exhausted. Turning to the crowd, he screamed his decision to forfeit the game to Boston because of Cobb's behavior. Everyone seemed greatly embarrassed, with the exception of Mr. Cobb. A quick conference was held in which it was agreed that paying spectators deserved consideration. Wherefore another game was played with the ancient centre-fielder completely, conspicuously, Comfortingly (to Umpire Wilson, at least) absent...
Manager Cornelius McGillicuddy, recent purchaser of Cobb's services, wondered uneasily if his team would be fined the customary $1,000 for causing the forfeit of a game. Cobb grinned, having stirred up the first major fracas of the 1927 season, thus adding to his already numerous distinctions...
Today is the last day on which applications for the Reengagements of rooms in college dormitories may be turned in at the Bursar's Office. Those failing to have their applications in by 5 o'clock this afternoon will forfeit their right to occupy their present rooms during the next college year...
...sleep overnight in these bug rest houses, will even be paid a small sum for doing so, as long as they lie still and kill no bugs. Should a sleeper kill a bug, even by accidentally rolling over, he will be ejected from the bug house by attendants and forfeit his sleep money. No less than 200 insect rest houses of a more or less similar nature are maintained throughout India by pious natives who realize that no bug is too insignificant to contain the reincarnated soul of an ancestor...