Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...playing a very uneven game, some times doing really good work but the next moment showing that it is impossible to depend upon them. Their chief faults are, in the line, a tendency to "scrap" so much that they become unsteady on their feet, are easily blocked off, cannot block-off themselves and lose sight of the ball. The guards especially seem to think that they are on the field chiefly to maul all the men opposite them. The chief faults of the backs are, first, a tendency to get separated when running, so that all interference is lost...
Hollis - Mr. and Mrs. Kendal in "A Scrap of Paper...
Hollis Street-The Kendals in a Scrap of Paper...
Hollis Street-The Kendals in a Scrap of Paper...
...York Sun has lately printed an interesting scrap of gossip about a Harvard man. "The Messrs. Howe and Co. of London, found on a book stall an American book of anonymous verses, which they reprinted under the title 'Pirated Poems.' The English reprint has run into the twelfth thousand, and the publishers express a desire to become acquainted with the author and to share with him the profits arising from the sale of the book. The poems are witty, philosophical, graceful, and altogether delightful. We congratulate the Messrs. Howe and Co. upon their good taste," continues...