Word: got
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Holy Cross came to the bat first. Kelley, the first man up, got his base on balls, went to second on a wild pitch, and reached third on a passed ball. For a few minutes it looked as if a man would come in, but Highlands settled down. Curley struck out. Maroney went out on a grounder to Stevenson, and Powers flied out to Adams, Harvard made her only run this inning, and after this but two men succeeded in getting past first base. Whittemore came to the bat first and bunted to third, who threw him out at first...
...scoring was done in the third, the feature of the inning being a beautiful catch by Burgess off Pappalan's long fly. Rand, with one out, got to second on a base on balls and a stolen base, but the next two men ended the inning by striking...
...good round of applause. First, it shows that I am welcome, and secondly, it gives me a chance to think what I shall say next. I do not mean to say that I have come to address you unprepared, nor am I exactly like Mr. Lowell, who said he got off the best after dinner speeches he ever made, coming home...
...little New Hampshire school house. After I had surveyed its walls, whitewashed inside and outside, its hard benches and plain blackboard, the unsympathetic teacher and the sympathetic birch rod, an old gentleman came up to me and said: "We don't want any school around here. Years ago we got along without it. I'm going to vote agin it and so's my wife. Daniel Webster, when he was a boy, got it into his head that he had to study books. So he went to Boston and never was heard of again." To go back to oratory...
...fifth Stevens hit to Edmunds, Garrison fortunately got a base on balls, advanced to second on Perry's out, but got no farther because Lord was thrown out at first by Haskell. Haskell again got a base on balls, stole second and was caught off by Perry. Hayes was out on a fly to Garrison, McVey got to first on Fox's error, and then Scott got Brown's high...