Word: tempered
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Yale Record of this week is a good number. Among other things it discusses the place of the next Regatta, approves of New London, and thinks that extortion would be the chief feature of a Regatta at Saratoga. It loses its temper in an attempt to "rough" the Magenta for venturing to say that in its last number it indulged "a wee bit in braggadocio," and makes one remark which may have been funny when it first appeared in Yale papers, though we have forgotten, and another which we do not repeat, because we are unwilling to believe that more...
...course, being to wait for called balls. Out of five balls pitched, the last four came in beautifully, just where called for, and three strikes out were called by the umpire. This was rather sharp work, but not of a kind to call for the display of bad temper on the part of spectators which followed. The next striker had too balls and two strikes called on him, beside hitting a number of foul balls. At length he struck weakly to Perry at third, who presumably fielded it to Kent, at first; the ball struck a few rods in front...
...temper is baddish; his anger, like radish...