Word: restful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most rampant, and to which I especially desire to direct attention," the writer concludes, "is lawn tennis. Players and manufacturers call 'rackets' 'bats.' Cricket is played with a bat, lawn tennis with a racket. 'Strokes' are often called 'points' and 'aces;' a 'service' is called a 'serve;' a 'rest' is known as a 'rally;' the 'sides' (of the net) become 'ends;' the 'striker out' is transformed into the 'non-server,' and the 'server' into the 'striker;' sometimes they are called 'hand-in' and 'hand-out,' when tennis scoring is employed, as is now universally the case. It is too much...
...themes in French metres would find themselves ill at ease when so finely gotten up and would move about in a restrained and over-careful manner. The sad smile of politeness and worn-out gallantry is substituted for substantial good-nature. Appearance is of first importance, little matters the rest...
...Beret in Argo.Poor Cupid! if he has to achieve all the labors put upon him in the last twelve-month, he will even outshine the great Hercules. The Columbia Spectator, through disinclination, or shall we say inability, has not been so successful as the rest, although some of T. J. B.'s verses are worth the reading. The Athenaeum is in much the same position. Decke writes a great deal, in fact its verses are like its cuts, if there were fewer of them it would be better for them and for us; but what would be left...
...almost entirely to the pitcher and catcher. The first question that is always asked of any nine is, "What sort of a pitcher has it got?" If the pitcher is good and is supported by a catcher who can hold his delivery, the batting and fielding qualifications of the rest of the nine become minor points of consideration, while if the pitcher is poor no excellence on the part of other players can remedy the defect. The pitcher, with the assistance of the catcher, is depended on to do the work for the whole nine. Small scores are the natural...
...when Venus took her skip across the sun's face. The winding staircases leading to the top were crowded all day long with students desirous of observing the transit through Prof. Lee's equatorial refractor. Your correspondent ruined his constitution by a climb along with the rest of the eager star-gazers. He was exceedingly disappointed with his observations and obtained about as much satisfaction as he would had he gazed through a sheet of smoked...