Word: mask
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...always his passion conceal with a mask...
...THAYER, '78, has obtained a patent from Washington for his invention of the catcher's mask...
...foot-ball field. Seats have been erected and comfortable arrangements thereby secured for the return college games. The season has opened auspiciously. The efficacy of the winter's Gymnasium practice is shown by the excellent form in which the Nine shows itself thus early in the season. The new mask has proved a complete success, since it entirely protects the face and head, and adds greatly to the confidence of the catcher, who need not feel that he is every moment in danger of a life-long injury. To the ingenious inventor of this mask we are largely indebted...
...Harvard base ball mask has found favor with the professionals, and will be used extensively during the coming season...
...drunkenness which he has placed in pillory. I am afraid that with our author anxiousness for our ultimate perfection has outrun observation of facts. I object to the otherwise good figure in regard to Society's veiling its head in the presence of immorality, on the ground that the mask is for the erring. That one should pretend to discover among us openness of vice, that last step in moral degradation, is surprising, when it is patent to one who observes at all that loss of caste is its result, while the portion of the habitue is contempt. At worst...