Word: manned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...picked up my Demonology. "Poor ghost!" I thought, "though perhaps rightly punished, his case is a hard one. Were his story more widely known, I am sure that there is not a man in college who would not, to relieve this spirit's pain, give up some of his own pleasures, even that of going to prayers...
...Sawyer and was put out at first. Comstock batted a hot grounder through Leeds and took his second, Nickerson in the mean while scoring. Lee followed with a base hit bringing in Comstock. Griffin reached first on an error of Thayer, but was left there, as the next man struck to short stop and was retired at first...
Brown did not score in this half of the inning, nor did they get another run until the seventh, while Harvard scored two runs in the fifth, three in the sixth, and two in the seventh. In the seventh inning Brown scored one, the man being brought in on a balk by Ernst. In the next inning they seemed to get hold of our pitching, and on three base hits, aided by eight errors by our Nine, scored four unearned runs...
...This same gentleman, growing very eloquent over his subject, remarks that "one might infer, from the absence of an elective in historical German, that there was no literature worthy of study anterior to the eighteenth century"; a statement which seems to show that he supposes that the average man, whom I suppose to be designated by the word "one," is ignorant of the existence, not only of the classics of ancient and mediaeval Europe, but also of the Bible, - a book which the onslaughts of the wise men of our time have, as yet, hardly driven out of sight...
...would be idle to enumerate the many advantages of this system of ethics. In brief, by means of it a man may realize the glorious rule of the convent of the Thelemites in Rabelais...