Word: set
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Patterson-An unusually steady bat and very difficult to get out when once set; he has obtained the batsman's prize in Philadelphia during the last two years with the fine averages of 64 and 72. He is also one of the best bowlers in the Germantown club...
...Thomson-A fast right hand bowler, and a dangerous batsman when set. A member of Merion club...
...stuck to him. James looks at the world instead of a swinging black ball of geometrical proportions. Still, I think Howells will change his ideas. He seems too clever a man to stick to them. The recent discoveries regarding the Russian school of novelists has set England to noting them very widely. I am very much taken up with them. Tolstoi is extraordinary; he is wonderful; but I think the old man has actually gone daft, for it is in credible that any one could hold such paradoxes of opinion. But his literary excellence is wonderfully artistic. 'Peace...
...with very meagre ideas of that which is doing in the world about them. Congressional reforms have little interest for them, and present European politics are too complicated and need too patient study to be carefully followed. This is simply the result of one's finding himself set down in the whirl of events without an understanding of their causes; and to counteract this result a course in the topics of the day is needed. The field of the course would, to be sure, be changeable, but in general it should cover the history and present statutes of pending movements...
...play was especially noticeable in this respect. Snow played the most brilliant game, while Tailor's underhand strokes were very effective, and Lee and Tallant did some good placing. All four men played close to the net and volleyed a great deal. In the second set Tailer and Snow tried lobbing over their opponents' heads with good effect, but in the third most of the play was again near the middle of the court. The score by sets...