Word: got
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...trace in it sometimes the tide lines and driftmarks of civilization. The word chimney, for example, coming into English from the Latin by the way of Italian and French, gives us good ground for suspecting that the mass of the population of Saxon England before the Norman conquest got rid of their smoke by the less ingenious outlet of door and window. In cordwainer (still the legal designation of shoemaker) we are pointed to the fact that the people of Cordova made the best leather-a fame to which Morocco succeeded-hence Cordovannier, cordonnier, cordwainer. Cant perpetuates a sneer against...
chowder probably came to us from the island of Jersey through our Marblehead fishermen-corrupted from the French chaudiere, while our intercourse with the Dutch settlers of the New Netherlands is recorded in the phrase span of horses. From the Germans we got the word loaf and loafer. From the Spanish Mexicans vamose. Such examples might be multiplied without number...
...varsity nine defeated the Boston Woven Hose nine yesterday afternoon in a ten-inning game. In the first inning the Woven Hose men got a long lead. Two men hit by pitched balls, a wild throw by Winslow, an error by Dickinson, and McLaughlin's home run, resulted in five runs. The score stood 5 to 1 until the fifth inning when Harvard scored four runs on errors and good hitting by Dickinson and Paine...
...Highlands, and Hayes's muff of a fly, scored 7 runs. Harvard tied the score in the sixth, but Williams scored once in the seventh. Harvard was shut out in this inning but evened matters in the eighth. Neither side scored in the ninth, but in the tenth Williams got two runs on errors and an opportune hit of Hammatt...
...captains of the class teams, which are to run at the South Armory, Saturday, met at the gymnasium yesterday and drew for positions. '97 got the pole, with '94, '95, '96 in the order named...