Word: traverse
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The Princeton team will probably be composed of the following men: Rushers, Belknap, Harris, Harlan, Bird, Del Camp, Wanamaker and Travers; quarter back, Kimball; half backs, Baker and Lamar; back, Moffatt.
Princeton, it is said, is taking a decided brace in lacrosse. The team this year will be chosen from the following: J. A. Hodge, Jr., captain; C. Hewitt, P. L. Rieman, S. Egbert, C. R. Spence, L. Riggs, Jr., E. H. Rudd, R. McKnight, S. J. Poe, G. W. Gilmore...
"I made money enough in Virginia City, last spring, to set me going," continued Travers, "and the family were so delighted that they came out to California to spend the summer. They have been travelling around, seeing the sights, and are now here in town staying at the best hotel...
So the next day Travers took us half a mile out of the town, to the Company's mine, on a bare hill-side dotted with groups of men working around their shafts. Two of the "Company" were at work down below, and two were turning the cranks of the...
While Elsie was being let down, I caught a few words of whispered talk between Travers and the others, from which I inferred that they were still suspicious of Colney, the man who had opposed Elsie's election into the "Company," and so had managed to put him at work...