Word: wilding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...them has clutched at it. They have observed the sea, and one of them has found it loving, fickle, faithless, wanton, cruel, bitter. They have noted sundry meteorological phenomena, and recorded them in lines that, to quote one of the salt water singers, "Dance on in wild unrythmic glee...
...base hit--Reilly. Bases on balls--Off Way, 1. Struck out--By Garritt, 1; by Mahan, 3; by Way, 5. Hit by pitcher--By Garritt, 1; by Way, 1. Wild pitches--Garritt 2, Mahan, Passed ball--Harte. Hits -- Off Garritt, 7 in 4 innings. Umpires--Sternberg and Stafford...
Last Saturday the team defeated Pennsylvania, the nine which the University is playing today, by the overwhelming score of 10 to 4. Pumpelly pitched the game, and though he showed a tendency to be slightly wild, his delivery proved a complete puzzle. The batting order experienced an important shift in this game: Milburn, the second baseman, was put in the lead-off position, with H. Middlebrook second and Captain Middlebrook third. Hunter was placed ahead of Reilly on the list and Rhett went into eighth place...
...game was very loosely played, Pumpelly and Spielman, the opposing pitchers each giving eight bases on balls. Both made wild pitches, Pumpelly hit a batter and Spielman made a balk. These faults by the pitching staff, added to a total of twenty-one errors for the two nines, made the game the least interesting of the series between the two Universities. By winning Saturday's contest, Yale took the three-game series without a defeat, having previously won the first two games...
...Nightmare" proves how rare the extreme aesthete type is in our midst--Mr. Dos Passos would never have to resort to such obvious and wholesome objects of art as the Venus de Milo, a Buddha, and Parrish's "Pirate Ship" if he had ever seen the animal in the wild state in his native lair--in Oxford, for instance...