Word: streak
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...every Harvard man got two hits except Chandler and Scannell. Beale kept up his batting streak by making a single and a pretty three-bagger, which brought in a run. Young led Cornell at the bat, making a single, a threebagger, and a home run. He also ran bases well and played an excellent game behind...
PRINCETON, N. J., June 10.- Harvard defeated Princeton today by a wonderful streak of batting during the last two innings when the game seemed hopelessly lost. The excitement throughout the game was intense and the cheering magnificent...
Newport defeated the College Nine Saturday afternoon by the score of 14 to 4. They clinched the game at the start on errors by Harvard and their own good base running, and in the eighth struck a pretty batting streak. McBride was effective, but was struck by a pitched ball and replaced by Gallagher, who allowed no safe hits in three innings...
Yesterday afternoon, after a little preliminary practice, the 'Varsity and College nines played a six inning game which the 'Varsity won 9 to 5. Up to the last two innings, the game was very close, but in the fifth and sixth the 'Varsity developed a batting streak and won easily. The 'Varsity played fairly well, the batting being rather stronger than that of the College Nine. They, although weak at the bat, showed some improvement in team work and fielded well...
...irresolute nature. Arnold's letters also are largely biographical by intention, since Arnold like Thackeray was unwilling to have any formal life of himself published. A good many dry and trivial details, as well as references to persons still living, might well have been omitted; and the finical hypercritical streak in the great critic comes to the surface with unpleasant frequency. But the collection as a whole shows Arnold in an engaging light as son, brother, husband and father; the glimpses of English scenery are many and charming; and the governing bent of Arnold's mind is characteristically displayed...