Word: chilling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...adverse nature was even considered by them. The result was favorable. The Yale and Harvard base-ball teams met on more friendly terms than they ever had before, and indications pointed to a continuance of the good feeling begun in the contest for that championship; but either the chill of fall weather or the strength of the Harvard eleven has blasted the feeble growth which the spring had nurtured so tenderly, and now strife has returned...
...athletic sport which had such a good beginning ought certainly to have a good ending. One of the dampening effects on the enthusiasm of the hounds has been the bad scent laid, causing a great deal of annoyance and trouble to the hounds, suffering as they did, a sudden chill when the excitement of the chase was relaxed for any considerable length of time. In December weather the hares cannot be over-particular in leaving a very plain trail and all the petty tricks for throwing the hounds off the scent should be discarded as much as possible...
This delay is most injurious, since the hounds are over-heated and in the best condition to take a chill, which too often turns out fatally...
...Minot urged the necessity of regular open-air exercise, and gave peculiar emphasis to this, especially as a preventive of consumption. Symptoms of coming disease are hard to interpret, general wasting being a sign of chronic affections; fever, severe chill or vomiting are the accompaniments of many of the more acute diseases. The lecturer closed with short directions to those who are in any way exposed to the disease, pulmonary consumption. His directions here were simply to live in obedience to the laws of hygiene, being much in the open air and not subjecting the system to protracted exertion...
...daily, playing several games with picked nines. As a whole the weather was not good for practice. The game on Fast Day, which was with Dr. Pope's nine, was the most important game of the recess, but even that was not very exciting, and on account of the chill atmosphere the playing was rather poor. Following is the score...