Word: safe
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Added to all this, the mattresses furnished were worn-out truck taken from an old steamboat. There was no shade around the place, and the house becoming very warm during the day, it was midnight before it became sufficiently cool to allow one to get to sleep. It is safe to say that no man got a good night's rest while at the quarters. The cramped dining-room immediately adjoining the kitchen was so hot that the men usually removed their coats before sitting down to a meal...
...base ball season is about to open, we would speak of the custom of applauding good batsmen when they step up to the bat. The majority of ball players, particularly amateurs, are apt to strike wildly and harder at a ball after applause, and are less sure of a safe hit. With a poor batsman it is somewhat disheartening to step up to the bat four or five times during a game amidst gloomy silence, when three or four men ahead of him have been loudly cheered. We hope that all will remember hereafter, and not be too hasty...
...engaged in trying for the 'Varsity; but this year no such objection exists, and we ought to be able to find four good men who fulfil the above conditions to represent us, especially as it counts one point toward the championship cup, which will be sent to us for safe keeping as soon as it is made, owing to our last year's Mott Haven victories...
...know not what impulse made me beg her not to go, as earnestly as I dared. I said it would not be safe for two only; I dared not tell her that I distrusted her father. She laughed at my objections, and asked me if I would accompany and protect them...
...open to criticism. Several games were lost by a hair's-breadth, and we were led to attribute this result to "hard luck;" but we think that the causes of our ill-success lie deeper than that. The base-running, on the whole, has been poor, and it is safe to say that the second game, if no other, with Yale, was lost through this deficiency. The fielding has been fair, with two or three exceptions; while the batting has been extremely variable. The great trouble has been in finding a catcher; but we think that had adequate efforts been...