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Word: makes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...RUMOR is current that the "pocket athletes" - more generally known as Lawn-Tennis players - are to open a grand College Tournament. The event will doubtless make a great racket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/17/1878 | See Source »

...base-hit, but was left on second, the succeeding batsmen striking out. Wright made a base-hit, and scored on damaging errors by Hunt; Alger also scored on an error by Hunt, Latham's base-hit, and a wild pitch. Errors by Tyng and Ernst allowed Hamill to make third in the fourth inning. Neither side reached a base after this until the seventh inning, when base-hits by Thayer, Ernst, and Wright, aided by errors of Hunt and Cutts, gave two runs. Wigton reached second on a failure of Tyng to put him out on three strikes. Dodge struck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASE-BALL. | 5/17/1878 | See Source »

...after his sumptuous dinner at Memorial Hall, the Rifle Corps, which appears on Holmes Field, in its new uniform, every Monday evening, offers a spectacle at once pleasing and edifying. Some persons, who used to drill in the Boston School Regiment when they were little boys, are inclined to make invidious comparisons, but of course such comparisons are entirely out of place. It has not been decided yet when the Corps will "go into camp," but it is generally understood that Chelsea is the spot selected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/17/1878 | See Source »

...have prayers," said the Gargoyles, "how will you make the men come to breakfast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT THE BELL THINKS OF PRAYERS. | 5/3/1878 | See Source »

...They sing poorly enough at any time, and this rain will be sure to make their flatting insufferable. The Pierian is no better. However, it's a great comfort to feel that one is doing his duty to the Boat Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BOAT-CLUB CONCERT. | 5/3/1878 | See Source »

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