Word: got
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...got a book of hymns...
...cups of tea, two glasses of milk, some cold meat, an omelet, hot biscuits innumerable, a mound of griddle-cakes, and the usual "fixins," he called for four toothpicks, and was about to leave the table; but the polite head-waiter begged him to remain because they had got a yoke of oxen barbecuing for him in the back-yard. Skiapous lost fourteen pounds on that trip...
...game was closely contested up to the end of the seventh innings, the score then standing 10 to 10. On the eighth the Harvards got hold of their opponents' pitching, did some good batting, secured nine runs and six base hits, while the Browns in the same innings received a white-wash for the fifth time...
...second game was called at 11.30 on Thursday morning, the Harvards again at the bat. Mr. Hooper, '75, officiated as umpire. The first innings resulted in a whitewash for both sides. But on the second the Harvards got in 8 runs, on the third 5, and on the fourth 5, to the Browns 2, 1, and 1 in the same time. But here a change appeared. Kip seemed to lose his power of effective pitching, and Brown crept slowly up to our score; making three on the 5th, three on the 6th, and eight on the 7th. Brown went...
...thirty feet from the ground, sat Nason, '73, ready for the faintest signal of the start. But the start was not yet. The wiser ones, who had waited for boats to start before, took no part in the general rush to the bank at each false alarm, but quietly got through the tedious hour and a half as best they could...