Word: put
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...throwing was wild. Then suddenly our captain called the bunch together and said: 'Boys, you're not making history very fast, and if you don't wake up now and play ball, I'll forfeit the game!' We awoke and played ball. Our batters found the ball and put it out of commission, while the runners passed over the bags. The score was tied, and then Williams forged ahead--12 to 9--striker...
...final with Harvard at bat. A ball long-driven was met on the bound, and a wild, high throw to first was received in the air with a jump and a reach, just in time to put the runner out. The next victim fanned the air. A third went to the plate with a stately tread. It was a sky-rocket, not long but high. That little black sphere in the center of the big shining orb was coming down to mother earth, but it never struck because Orrin Day (second baseman) was in the way. The impact knocked...
...policy in intercollegiate boat races is concerned, we have put ourselves on record frankly as not in the competition for four-mile honors. Some of the reasons for this grow out of our own situation in Princeton, and some have a more general application. I do not myself believe that a four-mile race involves a severer strain upon the man properly trained for such a race than a two-mile race. I have rowed all distances from a mile to four miles, and my recollection is that one-mile races were the most 'punishing...
...whether we put country above right or not, we all want our country to be right, particularly when it is a question of war. Even if one makes one's fatherland monarch of conscience and dictator of action, surely it must be revolting to go killing the enemy when you think he is right. Though all sensible people, as General Wood said, desire peaceful settlement of troubles, yet honest attempts have failed and may fail again. And therefore Plattsburg, the naval cruise, and Harvard's Preparedness Week (with its large bouquets of "easy conscience...
...those who have rifiles or ammunition belts in their possession must return them to their places in the racks at the Armory at once. All rifles must be cleaned before being put away permanently...