Word: naps
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...coaching, which has cost us many a run this season. If there is anything which disgusts spectators it is to see a man fail to make a base when opportunity is offered, or try to run more bases than his hit will give him, or, worst of all, caught nap ping at his base. It seems too bad that a nine which does such brilliant work in the field and at the bat should mar its record by a fault which can so easily be corrected...
President Porter has requested the seniors to avoid the corner seats in his recitation room, the paradise of the would-be sleepers. A student who presumedly had been working hard the night before, was rudely aroused from his nap a few days ago by rolling off of one of the benches during the President's lecture...
...Mother Harvard ends her nap...
...Philadelphia Item, speaking of the plot of the new play, "Youth," says: "Any gentleman with a bad digestion could conceive an equally entangled and unpleasant one in an ordinary after-dinner nap...
...first attempt was a failure: the servant said he was taking a nap and could not be disturbed on any account. The second time, however, I was more fortunate: he was in, and I was ushered into his presence, feeling somewhat shaky about the knees, I must confess. He proved to be a fine-looking, gray-haired man of about sixty, I should judge, who soon set me quite at my ease by talking English to me, and very good English too. I learned from him that all I had to do was to prove myself a foreigner, which...