Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...downright and unconcealed slugging of Saturday's game is also condemned. There is a great deal of difference between a game played strongly by both teams, which is necessarily rough, and one when the aim of a team is evidently to knock their opponents out or to use them up so that they are unfit to offer any resistance...
...inches; Shearman cleared 5 feet, 8 inches, and won, as Leavitt, whose best jump was 5 feet 7 1-4 inches, could not reach this height. The bar was then raised to 5 feet, 8 5-8 inches, when Shearman touched it in his jump, but did not knock it off. This was five-eighths of an inch above his best previous record...
...that, Fothergill? Can any one hit one of your curves?" Fothergill rather thought not; and considering that an income about ten times as large as an English curate's is paid a first-class pitcher in America, it will be readily understood that if any one could knock their pitching about at pleasure, they would be rather costly at that price. The Englishmen, however, though they may have begun to suspect that there must be more in base-ball pitching than met the eye, could not but maintain their opinion that even with base-ball bats, the bowling, or rather...
...issuing from a certain entry; he has often asked us up to his room No. -. But for the life of us, when we go to see him, we cannot remember what number he told us. Or again memory plays us false, and we do not feel sure enough to knock at a door which we have opened time and again. In all these cases, we are left hopelessly nursing our memory in the hall or in the Yard, with no alternative but to seek the information in our room or at some store. Then we retrace our steps, - possibly...
...pettiness of the proctor system as it now exists. Peace must be preserved in the college dormitories, it is true, and none desire it more than the students themselves. But they do protest when at every slight ebullition of mirth or casual congress of friends the proctor's knock is heard at the door. The proctors should remember that their office is not to quell disturbances annoying to themselves only, as much as it is to stop everything that may call forth reasonable complaints from anyone in the building. They should remember that if they have to put up with...