Word: half
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University four-oar--crew was yesterday afternoon defeated by a scrub crew in a practice row over a half-mile course. The crews kept very close together until nearly the end of the race, when the scrub crew pulled ahead, winning by about half a length...
...stole second, and scored on an error by Nesmith. Neither side scored again until the eighth, when Sperry, for the Juniors, reached first on Marean's error, Hellman made a hit, Leonard got his base on balls and four runs were scored on Nesmith's home run. In their half of the eighth inning the Seniors-scored seven runs on three hits, two bases on balls, two errors and a hit batsman...
Dean Hurlbut's agreement is a half-hearted compromise and a bare-faced confession of weakness. It is an agreement through which a mere child could drive a coach and four. It temporizes...
...subscribed toward a Harvard bed in Dr. Grenfell's Hospital in Labrador--at that time $386--further subscriptions have been received bringing the total to $636. The total subscription has come about equally from undergraduates and from graduates and instructors. The amount so far subscribed is a little over half the amount necessary to endow the bed. Very truly yours, W. C. SABINE...
...Mining Club, and between Holworthy and Stoughton. Men are urged to from other teams and to bring their own gloves, bats and balls. There will also be swimming races and field games. The events will include the 100-fathom dash, putting the 20-pound clams shell, throwing the half-pound lobster, and kicking the bucket (form and distance considered). Special attractions are offered to all ologists including Zoos., Geols., Psychols., Archaeols., and Palaeonts., also to botanists and students of forestry. Members of the Natural History Society will given and exhibition of catching the butterfly...