Word: striking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...game were the pitching of Sexton, a remarkable catch by Hille, the Yale centre fielder, of A. Sweetser's long drive, and a pretty assist by Twitchell. The game was a pitcher's battle until the eighth inning when the Yale support weakened. Each pitcher had twelve strike-outs to his credit...
...Desha and Reeves out for bunting third strike and one out when winning run was scored...
...Reeves out, bunting on third strike...
...most successful play of the evening was "Manacles." The lines are well-written, and the action vigorous. The confrontation of the socialist strike-leader and the pitiless manufacturer yields little dramatic novelty, but it is amazingly well done. Its being a play "with a purpose" gives it boldness, unity, and sincerity, without detracting in the least from its vividness. Joe Patterson, the strike-leader, impelled by want to attempt burglary, is surprised and captured by the manufacturer, whose house he has entered. There follows a scene in which the strike-leader, having unmasked himself, gives voice to the wrongs...
...open Harvard to men thoroughly trained in the ground-work of knowledge, rather than to men who have crammed at the last minute for a few highly specialized examinations. The second will turn out men of neither too broad nor too narrow an education: it is an attempt to strike the golden mean between...