Word: poorest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Salt is savary, purifying, preservative. Christ was not paying compliments to his disciples. He was giving a clear and powerful call to duty. Were they to make their influence felt on earth for good? Men of privilege without power are waste material. Men of enlightenment without influence are the poorest kind of rubbish. Men of intellectual and moral and religious culture who are not active for good in society are not worth what it costs to produce and keep them. They were meant to be the salt of the earth and the first duty of salt is to be salty...
...expected that the men would brace up and play good ball, but a Harvard team has seldom shown poorer form in a big game than the nine last Saturday. Not only was the batting and fielding weak, but the men were listless and on several occasions showed the poorest kind of judgment in the handling of hits and in backing up the bases...
...first inning, Fitz as usual showed his poorest form, allowing Amherst to score two runs, both of which, however, might have been prevented had Cozzens judged Tinker's high fly rightly. In the fifth inning Amherst succeeded in bunching three of their six hits, which, aided by a wild pitch, again forced two men across the plate. The other two runs were made in the third and ninth as a result of loose fielding...
...first five innings Hayes pitched his poorest game, giving seven bases on balls. He steadied down very much during the rest of the game and forced Andover by steady, aggressive work when it was most needed...
...time devoted to practice yesterday was spent in tackling the dummy. The 'Varsity then lined up with the second eleven for ten minutes. The playing was loose, though fast, the most noticeable fact being a decided falling off in form, on the part of the second. Brown played his poorest game of the season. At full-back, he muffed punts continually, once allowing the 'Varsity to regain the ball on two successive kicks, which brought it from the centre of the field to the 5-yard line. It was virtually through their kicking and Brown's poor work that...