Word: safely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Athletics defeated the Yale nine on Saturday, by a score of 10 to 5. The base running of Yale was very fine. The Athletics made 10 safe hits from Booth's delivery, while Yale made but 5, with a total of 6 from Atkinson.-The following men composed the Yale nine: Booth p., Southern c., Brigham 1st b., Terry 2d b., Hopkins 3d b., Oliver s. s., Hickox l. f., Atwood c, f., McKee...
...education must be in the line of altruism, teaching men to go outside and stay outside themselves. It is not safe to start the intellectual life in the study of physical science; education should begin with the humanities...
...fortunes of the South by one bold move. But Rosecrans could gain little and close much by fighting a superiorforce so far from Nashville, his base of supplies. He would have done better to have waited in Chattanooga until more troops and supplies should put him in a perfectly safe condition...
...dislodged. Another day's events undeceived him. As Hooker was delayed by a broken bridge, Thomas' corps charged across the valley and up the steep heights driving the enemy. Sherman also carried the northern position of Bragg, and the Confederate army was in full retreat. Chattanooga was safe, and henceforward the base of supplies. The states of Tennessee and Kentucky were secure, and the way was opened for an attack upon the very centre of the Confederacy which...
Several months had been passed in these fruitless efforts. Grant was now no nearer the city which was as safe as ever. It was almost the end of April. Something must be done. A new and, as it proved, successful plan was devised. To harass and occupy the attention of the enemy a cavalry raid to the east and rear of the city was carried out successfully by Colonel Ryerson, while Sherman and his corps watched the works just above Vicksburg. Grant moved the rest of his army to the west side of the river and making a wide circuit...