Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...base on balls, a steal, and two sacrifices. He scored again in the fifth, on another base on bal's, a sacrifice and a wild pitch. Williams got her second run in the fifth inning when two hits a base on balls, and Cummings' fumble allowed Wilson to reach the plate. In the fourth inning, Dean, McKean, and Henshaw made a pretty double play at second base and the home plate. The score...
...liner to Mumford which bounced unexpectedly and injured his leg so that he was obliged to let McLeod take his place. Harvard started off well. Evans got around on Hawley's hit, but Dean and Hawley were left by the failure of Linn and Howland to reach first. Hartford continued the same game in the ninth and ran up their score to thirteen. Hawley gave three of them bases on balls. Harvard also gained three runs by good batting and a base on errors...
...same day the manager of the '91 nine wrote to Exeter asking for a game on Friday, May 10. The Exeter manager secured special permission from the faculty to play on that day, and telegraphed to Cambridge to have the team come if it could reach Exeter by a certain hour in the early part of the afternoon. The combined efforts of the '91 captain and manager failed to find on the time-table the train which was scheduled to reach Exeter at the said time. Notice was thereupon sent to Exeter stating Harvard's inability to reach Exeter...
...strokes had been taken Number 5 in the freshman boat jumped his seat and as the regulation ten strokes had not been rowed, the crews were re-called. The second start was more successful, all the crews getting away about together. Eighty-nine was the first to reach the Harvard bridge, with Ninety-two three-quarters of a length behind, while Ninety and Ninety-one were nearly abreast of each other and only a few feet behind the freshmen. As soon as the sophomores had passed the bridge they spurted and slowly but surely crept up until they...
...girls and boys in the secondary schools are getting a fuller view of this incomparable character than the younger children can reach. They learn of his great part in that immortal federal convention of 1787, of his inestimable services in organizing and conducting through two presidential terms the new government-services of which he alone was capable, and of his firm resistance to misguided popular clamor. They seehim ultimately vietorious in war and successful in peace but only through much adversity and over many obstacles...