Word: taming
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Maybe we are listless and our ardor is too tame...
After all the bluster and outcry about the painting outrage, does the '98 investigating committee suppose we are going to be satisfied with a tame and secret dismissal of the culprits when they are caught...
Harvard, 2; U. of P., 0.The last ball game of the season was played with Pennsylvania on Holmes Field, June 23, and was won by Harvard 2 to 0. The game was tame and uninteresting. The only two runs of the game were scored in the first inning. Haughton played the best game for Harvard and brought in both runs by a beautiful three-basc hit. Blakely played the best game for Pennsylvania. The class of '71 attended the game in a body...
...another smaller portion, and a base desire to avoid the slightest financial loss even at the cost of the loss of national honor by yet another portion, we may be led into a course of action which will for the moment avoid trouble by the simple process of tame submission to wrong. If this is done it will surely invite a repetition of the wrong; and in the end the American people are certain to rent this. Make no mistake. When our people as a whole finally understand the question they will insist on a course of conduct which will...
...mucker," such unbird like fearlessness had never before been seen. They sat on the snow under the trees just back of University Hall, eating the seeds that had fallen, permitted the curiours to approach within a yard or two without manifesting the slig test timidity. "What makes them so tame?" everyone asked...