Word: list
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...official list of batting averages, as made out by Secretary Merrill of Brown, the three highest averages were those of Durfee, Smith and Chase of Brown, while Green and Payne of the same college are found in the first ten. The remainder of the first ten is made up of one from each of the other colleges, Olmsted being Harvard's representative...
This is but a brief summary of the contents of a room whose every nook discloses some rare and antique object. To give but a list of what it contains would fill a volume...
...VIII. ???1. The association shall at its annual meeting appoint 20 umpires. The secretary shall obtain the addresses in full of each umpire and publish the list in Spalding's Base-Ball Guide. ???2. The visiting club, not less than seven days before each game shall submit to the home club the names of seven umpires, none of whom shall live in the city of the visiting club or be an alumnus or undergraduate of either college. The home club shall produce one of the seven umpires on the ground in season for the game; in case of non-compliance...
General Grant is reported to have said to a gentleman in New York yesterday that he would never allow his friends to propose to Congress again the passage of a bill placing him on the retired list with the rank of general...
...learned professors the other day, while marking the list of absentees, remarked, as he jotted down the names, "Mr. S. and Mr. R. absent;" and then a moment after, glancing around, innocently queried, "Is there any one else here absent...