Word: skies
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...curve till the area of its circle is four times as large as it was where it began, and then growing smaller again to a second circle at the top. It is no longer a pyramid, with its broad foundation in the mud and its solitary apex in the sky...
...weather conditions of Saturday afternoon were all that could have been desired for good ball playing, and the cloudless sky brought an assembly of some 600 to Holmes Field to witness the final game in the Dartmouth-Harvard series...
...cloudy sky and the fact that the college is now in the midst of its examinations, prevented anything like a decent attendance at yesterday's game, the seats being occupled by a scant 200 spectators. The Princeton men presented their freshman battery. Mercur and Taylor, while Winslow was caught by Choate. At 4.10 the game was opened with Princeton...
About forty freshmen accompanied their team to New Haven yesterday to see it badly beaten. The weather was stormy in the morning, and, although it cleared a little in the afternoon, the sky was threatening during the entire game. There was a good audience at the field, which effectively cheered its nine at every available point; and, although some few manifested a disposition to cheer errors, they were promptly hissed by their classmates, who showed a gratifying disposition to treat our men fairly throughtout. The game from the outset was very onesided: the Yale men played a faultless fielding game...
...ground stand with its crowded audience; the long lines of carriages, bright with the blue parasols of their fair occupants; the level turf of the diamond, dotted here and there with crimson or blue clad players, the whole standing out distinctly against back-ground of the clear May sky. Repeated cheers welcomed the appearance of the nines upon the field, doubly repeated when any good play called for commendation...