Word: gap
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Pennsylvania team reached the city at 6.05 this evening from the Delaware Water Gap where they have been since Wednesday for a final freshing...
...Pennsylvania eleven spent a quiet day today. The men rose early, practiced signals for an hour and then took a brisk walk. In the afternoon they went through a little light practice. They seem greatly invigorated by the dry, frosty air of the Deleware Water Gap and are all in fine condition...
Tomorrow the eleven with seven substitutes will go to the Delaware Water Gap to practice until Friday in secret...
...Dickson, r. e.; and Weeks, q. b, is excellent. Weeks will be in good condition for the game, but Hedges will take Dickson's place. Boyle, who has rejoined the eleven, will play the other end. On Wednesday the men will probably be taken to the Delaware Water Gap or some place in the country where they can be quiet and practice signals in secret...
...humorous. The humor is not insistent, and the reader is flattered by having much left to his intelligence. The same may be said of the narration in the other stories. These are told with a simplicity and directness suggestive of Kipling. This is more especially true of "Through the Gap." The last in the volume, "A Purple Rhododendron," is intensely dramatic and carries the reader by main force up to the crisis. None of the stories are more than a few pages in length, yet each is a distinct and lasting picture...