Word: ninth
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...stood 13 to 21, in favor of Harvard, and at this point the game should, without question, have been called; but it was allowed to continue, Boston scoring six in the eighth with no additional runs for Harvard. Although now quite dark, an attempt was made to play the ninth inning, but it was evident to all that it could not be completed, and if Harvard looked with indifference on the number of runs made, the "Reds" also knew that they could not increase their total of nineteen runs already scored...
...come to the close of another week, we note with almost a shiver the rapid flight of time which has nearly brought us to the end of our first collegiate month,- one ninth of the college year already gone. Scarcely yet has the Tabular View been fully committed, the new names of classes rightly applied, or any one fairly settled down to the plan of work he had laid out for himself. Wonderfully seductive are these golden autumn days to lovers of the country and out-door sports, and although, by dint of required recitations judiciously disposed from the first...
...ninth innings the Browns had four runs and two men out; but as darkness was rapidly coming on, West was directed by the Captain to strike out, and save the innings, which he did, giving the game to the Magenta by a score...
...same time. But here a change appeared. Kip seemed to lose his power of effective pitching, and Brown crept slowly up to our score; making three on the 5th, three on the 6th, and eight on the 7th. Brown went in on the ninth inning with twelve to tie, and thirteen to win the game, and nearly succeeded in doing this; for it was not until they had made eleven runs, and Tyng had been placed in the pitcher's position, that the last man went out on an easy fly to Richards at first base...
...public as a patron-saint of the histrionic profession. He enrolls and magnificently equips a regiment of soldiers, aspiring to military glory, if not by deeds of valor on the battle-field, at least by gaudy uniform in time of peace, and by brandishing in front of the "Bloody Ninth" a bloodless sword. But not only does he raise and support armies; he creates navies. He buys a line of steamers, comprising the finest boats in the country; but their chief value to him, after all, is in adding to the many titles he already enjoys...