Word: manned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...people admit that a man is tres-bete...
...oldest man in '77 is 28 years, the youngest 19 years 2 months; average age, 22 years 6 months...
...hurry, and goes out quickly at first. Dow then hits a hard one to the pitcher, who touches it with his hand just enough to turn it into the short-stop's hands. Sawyer then completes the symmetry of the score card by going out as the twenty-seventh man...
These lectures, in after years, will always be one of the most agreeable features of our college course; and I feel sure that one is speaking for the entire class, in expressing deep regret at Mr. Everett's departure; alike for the loss of so agreeable a man, so profound a scholar, and so captivating a lectures...
...such an oppressive afternoon, I betake myself to my lounge and try to get a nap. I am having the most delicious doze you can imagine, dreaming, yet conscious that I am dreaming, when, after delivering a kick at the door that nearly breaks it in, the noisiest man in the class enters, slams the door, seizes me by the shoulder, and wants me to go to walk. I give a grunt which I think ought to be a sufficient hint that he is not wanted; but, entirely unabashed, he gives me a lecture on the subject of exercise, saying...