Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Columbia was blanked for the first five innings. In the sixth, she scored from a scratch hit by Welch and a three-base hit by McCabe. In the eighth inning she made one more run from a base on balls, a poor throw from home to second and an overthrow from Boyden to Quackenboss...
...practices, and this discovery, taken with the recent attempted sales of decorations, made the people clamorous for his punishment as an example. President Grevy refused to abandon his son-in law, and a hostile feeling arose between the president and the legislature. The monarchical factions seized this opportunity to overthrow the existing ministry, hoping to benefit from the confusion which would follow. All attempts to form a new ministry failed, and a revolution seemed inevitable. The dangerous classes of Paris were eager for a revolt and threats were made that if M. Ferry were elected president he would have...
...snobbery is entirely foreign to the tone of the Harvard spirit, it could easily be done away with without injuring that spirit. The only thing, however, that can accomplish the overthrow of snobbery is a reform in the general sentiment of the college, an awakening in the whole college of a sense of the common good. It seems that the tendency of the times is already in that direction. To that end we add our prayers...
...Princeton, Mercur and Wagenhurst made hits. On errors of Wiestling and Mumford both scored, Larkin reaching first. Brownlee's hit sent him to second. Boyden caught Brownlee napping at first. King hit an easy one to Boyden and on the overthrow at first which he followed, scored. The next men retired at first. Harvard, 6; Princeton...
...which latter word seems to be included not only Montesquieu, Voltaire and J. J. Rousseau, who, by the way, led the revolution, but also the German writers, Lessing. Schiller, Goethe. The latter, I may add, like the later English writers, seems to have drawn much inspiration from that same overthrow - after saying all this, proceeds to evolve Victor Hugo and Theophile Gautier from the paltry revolution of 1830, and from these all the other French writers from Zola to Daudet, the American realist and Tolstoi, which latter, after a pun on the word art, he proceeds to magnify...