Word: timee
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Adventures of a Gentleman, who on a wager of ten thousand dollars undertook to go from New York to New Orleans in three weeks without money, as a professional tramp." It is a very ingenious and entertaining bit of work, full of characteristic humor, and at the same time containing much valuable information concerning tramp life, which, if true, points to the solution of many a problem of social science. At the same time there is woven into the narrative a thread of romance which comes to full view and development in the latter part. While the writing...
...Inning. Again Yale fails to reach first base; Ernst and Tyng have got into their old-time, clock-like precision. But Harvard does not succeed in hitting Lamb, and although Holden manages to get to first by an error, he is left there. The score is still 4 to 0 for Yale...
...merely a question how badly the blues shall be beaten. Nunn is first out. Then Cohen and Holden hit singles; Coolidge gets his base on an error; Tyng and Ernst take a farewell of Lamb for one base-hit each and Wright comes to the bat. For the third time in this game he drives the ball for two bases, but is left on third as Winsor finishes the game by a foul bound, - Cohen having been run out at third. Result: four more runs; making the total, Harvard 9, Yale...
...Time of game...
...June does not need description. The only dramatic situation was at the start, which was made at dusk after a delay of nearly three hours. Then Yale caught the water at the word "two," and this advantage gave her the lead for a second and a half. After that time Harvard pulled steadily away from Yale, and increased the lead during each mile. She won by a difference of one minute and forty-three seconds, making the four miles in 22.15, - a loss upon last year's time, which was 20.44. The time this year is by no means remarkable...