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Word: slipperyness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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In the presence of about 50 spectators the glee Club and Pierian Sodality played a match game of foot-ball yesterday morning on Jarvis. Play was begun at about 9.40 and consisted of two periods of 20 minutes each. During the first half the glee Club forced the playing and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB VS. PIERIAN. | 11/16/1883 | See Source »

The first indications of winter appear in our old friends the board-walks which are already lying in wait for the coming snow and ice. It is a very common saying "that time brings many changes," but in our case it seems to have forborne to make any, or at...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/31/1883 | See Source »

The eleven played at Hoboken, N. J., Saturday, in the midst of a pouring rain, and succeeded in defeating the Stevens Institute team by the score of 14 points to 4. The rain made the ball very slippery, and therefore very hard to catch and hold. Fumbling by our backs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOT-BALL. | 10/22/1883 | See Source »

The gathering clouds kept many from coming to yesterday's game, and only about 500 spectators were on the grounds. The game was called for 3 o'clock, but just before this a heavy shower came up, and delayed the game for half an hour. Yale came first to the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASE-BALL. | 6/22/1883 | See Source »

Neither side scored again till the eighth inning, and the intervening innings were dull and uninteresting in the extreme, being redeemed only by the magnificent pitching of Winslow, who, although playing his first game for the season, displayed wonderful skill and coolness. In the second inning, while the ball was...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASE-BALL. | 6/22/1883 | See Source »

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