Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...features of the game were the batting of Olmsted, Bean, Dilts and Greene, the brilliant first base play of Burt and assists of Crocker from right field, and fine base running of Coolidge. The score...
...second inning Hall made a hit to centre, but was left on second, the next three men going out. For Brown, Smith made a clean drive to right. Chase knocked to Le Moyne, who, to cut off Smith, threw wild to Coolidge, the ball going to Nichols, who in turn overthrew to Le Moyne, letting Smith reach home. The next three men went out in order. Score...
Charles J. Gummer, receiving teller of the Bank of California, committed suicide at San Francisco yesterday. The act is attributed to losses in stocks. The bank officers say his accounts are all right...
...professor rose and kindly informed the men that he would allow them four hours - from ten until two - to finish the paper. The gentleman undoubtedly thought that he was doing an act of kindness and charity in thus prolonging the time, but the truth is that he had no right - divine or otherwise - to give a paper which not even the best men in the course could finish and finish well in three hours. Moreover, the length of examinations should be adjusted to the capabilities of not one or two or three leading men of the section, but to those...
...feared, will be discovered the weakness of the Yale crew. The crew do not observe the excellent rule made by Captain Cook, that the strength of the stroke should be expended at the moment the blade catches the water, and when the oar becomes at right angles to the boat the effort should be lessened, so that the stroke could be finished without jerk or splash, allowing opportunity to return quickly for the second stroke...