Word: got
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Andover came to the bat first, Barnes got his base on balls, reached second on Drew's sacrifice, scored on Sedgwick's sacrifice. He ran fully 15 feet inside of third base, but as Umpire Keefe was watching the play at first he did not notice it and the run counted. Elliot bunted but got caught napping at first, and the side was out. For Harvard Whittemore got his base on balls reached third on two wild pitches but was put out while trying to steal home. Winslow got his base on balls, stole second and third and came home...
Many of the old superstitions are now found only among children. Yet a few exceedingly curious beliefs, survive among us at the present time, notably the superstition still found in some parts of New England, that rats can be got rid of by writing them a letter and leaving it where they can see it. The same belief was current among the Romans...
...Winsor and Treasurer Hooper are at present considering plans for increasing the accommodations of the Library, but there is so much uncertainty about the means which will be available for improvements that little definite can be decided at present. What is settled is simply this, that something has got to be done to relieve the crowded condition of the Library, and every means available will be used to secure even temporary relief this year...
...Your football players have a genuine responsibility for the future of the game. Gentlemen, you must put your shoulders to the work; you must lend yourselves in earnest to the effort which has got to be made to improve the spirit of the game if the game itself is to be saved. You must not be afraid to make bold experiments and sweeping changes in the rules. If you are timid, if you are over-conservative, either from negligence or from fear of losing some temporary partisan advantage, the game, with all its splendid qualities, moral and intellectual as well...
...have his influence felt by all the men in his employ. It is a physical impossibility for a man to discuss a question with every man in his works, and to hear their feelings upon the subject; therefore, if the real opinion of the employees is to be got at, it is necessary for them to combine, and choose representatives to lay their views before their employer...