Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...spirit of the men. Whatever the cause, the fact remains that not enough interest has been shown to carry through successfully three winter meetings each year. The seemingly logical solution of the difficulty is the plan of the Association to have two meetings instead of one. They intend to strike out all the lessimportant and uninteresting events, and give more attention to making the others successful. They hope in this way to centralize their effors and get a large number of contestants in each event...
...also inaugurate a new and most dangerous policy, for the college is now asked for the first time to cut off a part of its best education to regain time which has been worse than wasted in the lower schools, while there is no hint of any attempt to strike at the real cause of our delays in education. We feel, indeed, that the consequences of the proposed step would be so momentous to the welfare of this and other colleges, and to the whole community, that it ought not to be taken without the hearty and almost unanimous concurrence...
...country and leave finished products; No. Am. Rev. Vol. 148, p. 482; Vol. 134, p. 564. d. They compete only with unskilled labor, and do not therefore affect the wages of skilled labor; No. Am. Rev., Vol. 148, p. 487. e. They are frugal, industrious, peaceable, and never "strike": Lippincott's Vol. 11, p. 220, and Vol. 2, p. 36; Nation...
...gave Frothingham a chance to cross the plate though Johnson was thrown out at third. Trafford fouled out. Upton drove the ball to left for two bases, took third on a wild throw, but was left there as soule struck out. Flies to Johnson and Soule, and Jackson's strike out retired Yale...
...fourth Frothingham got to first on a missed third strike, second on Cummings' hit, third on a passed ball and home on Dean's sacrifice. Cummings hit safely, took second on a passed ball, third on a wild pitch and home on Linn's grounder...