Word: give
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...give me the researches
...intended to give our readers the war news of the week, but regret to say that the daily papers and the Nation have got ahead...
...Freshmen played the Yale Freshmen a game of Base-Ball on Saturday last. The weather was most favorable, and the number of spectators was quite large. Game was called about three o'clock, our men going first to the bat. They succeeded in obtaining one run, and managed to give their opponents a whitewash. In the second inning Harvard scored 2, Yale again retiring without a run. During the next three innings neither side scored; and up to this point the game was remarkably well played, and the errors were few. In the sixth inning our Freshmen made four runs...
...town I saw mentioned was Kars. Keeping to my intention of getting up the war thoroughly, I turned to the map to see where this heathen citadel was situated. After looking for a long time in the wrong place, I was successful, - a result which I had expected would give me a great deal of pleasure. But when I came to compare my feelings after finding Kars with my state of mind before its discovery, I could not perceive that I felt any happier. In fact, I did not feel so happy; for now, whenever I heard any one mention...
...most delicious doze you can imagine, dreaming, yet conscious that I am dreaming, when, after delivering a kick at the door that nearly breaks it in, the noisiest man in the class enters, slams the door, seizes me by the shoulder, and wants me to go to walk. I give a grunt which I think ought to be a sufficient hint that he is not wanted; but, entirely unabashed, he gives me a lecture on the subject of exercise, saying that there is nothing like a fast walk in hot weather to take off a man's extra flesh...