Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...short played by far the best game of the afternoon. His fielding was sharp and effective, and he has to his credit seven assists and two put-outs with but one error. Drew caught Sedgwick's rather wild delivery very well, but the rest of the nine played in poor form...
...necessitate taking away the partition between the present meeting room and the adjacent room in the other entry, and also the two floors above. These changes will give a room of sufficient size for the Faculty meetings, and having much better ventilation, that of the present room being very poor...
...changes have been made during the last three weeks, and the men are getting accustomed to their positions. The chief faults of the crew as a whole are poor time, and a bad hang at the full reach. The men have a tendency to rush their slides and do not get a firm drive with their legs...
...watermanship is pretty poor as yet, especially among the new men, Stillman, Fox and Mann, none of whom have ever rowed before...
...presenting with kaleidoscopic diversity and photographic accuracy the most typical and amusing scenes and characters of the unique thoroughfare on the east side of New York, and showing the wonderfully thrilling leap of Steve Brodie, the king of the Bowery, the helper of the distressed, the benefactor of the poor, from Brooklyn bridge. Other scenic views are the Bowery at night, pier 13 East River, with burning ware house, Chatham Square by moonlight, the rich man's residence uptown, the river under the bridge, and in Steve Brodie's picture-lined saloon. A radical innovation has been decided upon...