Word: manned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...next two innings added nothing to our score and one to that of our opponents. In the eighth it looked as if we might win. Leeds and Wright led off with base hits, Dow followed with a slow grounder towards third, which the pitcher threw over the first-base man's head, letting in Leeds and Wright and sending Dow to third. Ernst then struck a grounder to the short-stop, who threw it to first in time to put out Ernst, and Dow was caught while foolishly attempting to run home. Tower closed the inning with a foul...
...several other unfortunates. He concludes with a peroration replete with high moral sentiments, and attaches to the argument a kind of "preventer backstay" in the following quotation from Scripture: "The Lord delighteth not in the strength of the horse, and taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man." As an equally apposite argument, though not of so high authority, I would suggest that haste makes waste; there are those that go out for wool and come home shorn; the pitcher that goes too often to the home base has his nose broken at last; every tub should stand upon...
...amount of study done by a man is not altered by his devoting himself partly to athletics...
...even a man...
...infer from the tone of an article in the Virginia University Magazine, that the writer has been reading Parton's Aaron Burr. He says, "What Burr actually was is simply told when we pronounce him to be the most unlucky man that ever lived...