Word: vim
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...knocked a very hot liner to Cook, who reached out for it with one hand and stopped it prettily, throwing it to first in time to cut off the runner. The first two men who went to the bat for Harvard scored. The nine started to work with a vim, and no one would have guessed that these were the only runs we were destined to make during the game. Soule took his base on balls and stole second. Hallowell hit cleanly to centre and Soule took third. Hallowell stole second. Hovey sacrificed, bringing Soule in and advancing Hallowell...
...first Harvard made a run on scratch hits by Hovey and Trafford, a stolen base, and a wild throw by Thurston. In the third we scored on Mendenhall's bad muff of Hallowell's hit, a stolen base and a wild pitch. Brown went to work with a vim in this inning. Mendenhall hit safely and stole second. Woodcock lifted the ball well over the right field fence. Frothingham was slow to pick it up, and both men came in. Then Jones struck out. Tenney got a base on balls, stole second, and took third on Messer's scratch...
...Wollastons defeated the Freshmen Saturday on Norton,s field. The game was by far the best the Freshmen have played this season: still the playing of the team as a whole is sleepy. There is not anything like enough snap and vim in their work. and the coaching is very poor. Waters, a new man, was tried in left field, and covered his ground well, accepting four difficult chances. Stone also played well, making some very pretty throws. For the Wollastons, outside the battery Wood and Grant did the best work, making two double plays. The score was as follows...
This change it is thought will enable the crew to get a sharper catch when they first get on the water and, it is hoped, will save the time that has formerly been wasted in putting snap and vim into the crew's work. These improvements will enable the crew to row from sixteen to eighteen strokes per minute right away, whereas formerly this rate was never attained until the latter part of February...