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Word: wanting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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Ernst's pitching was wonderfully effective and Thatcher's catching almost faultless. Our outfielders had a good deal of work to do, and did it without an error. The only two serious faults in our nine seem to be want of judgment, at times, in their base running, and a tendency to become nervous when the bases are full...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASE-BALL. | 5/5/1876 | See Source »

...such sacrifice of youthful health to the genius of intellectual industry? . . . . Why does not some one talk complainingly and clamorously of college students, about their irregular hours of eating and sleeping, their continual closeting of themselves in ill-ventilated rooms, their almost universal use of narcotics, their frequent want of any inspiring aim, and their abounding mental slothfulness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSCULAR DOUBTS. | 5/5/1876 | See Source »

...Fifty men injure themselves from want of exercise and regularity, where ten do from hard study and where one does from over-exercise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSCULAR DOUBTS. | 5/5/1876 | See Source »

...gambled fiercely till sheer want into his soul did stare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NIGHT-THOUGHTS. | 5/5/1876 | See Source »

...that the interest in boating would receive a lasting stimulus by the inauguration of the new Club System now in operation; but experience has shown that the enthusiasm so strongly awakened at the outset has steadily decreased, until the condition of the crews is now deplorable. But want of interest has not been the sole cause of this, for, since the revival of athletics here, it has been decisively shown that to hope for success one must apply himself to but one kind of sport. This of course is the only correct principle, but it necessitates a larger number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CLUB CREWS. | 5/5/1876 | See Source »

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