Word: afield
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...Crimson cause was materially aided by the gift of ten bases on balls and five miscues afield on the part of the Lord Jeffs. The University players, on the other hand, turned in an almost flayless game in the field, while Barbee gave no free bases...
...purchased a pair of vivid socks. Such indications are not to be scorneu, but the skeptic may definitely convince himself of the season by noticing his fellows during the lectures. Despite the best intentions, every eye wanders to the windows, attention follows the eyes, and then goes farther afield to the mountains, shore and great open spaces in general...
...headlines, and misleading leads. The Transcript, also, is the classic example among newspapers of the good old New England conservatism, the "safe" newspaper equally to be trusted when declaring that there is no summer playground that can hold a candle to New England or when leading the churchman afield...
With the memory of the late unpleasantness which visited the University during the last weeks, still so fresh in his mind, the Student Vagabond feels a great and irresistible urge to wander farther afield than the confines of Sever and New Lecture Hall. Never before have the Metropolitan white-lights glowed so invitingly; never before have the boards and the silver screen been so enticing...
...here I am back in Cambridge again, finding the dear old town quite deserted by the members of the Vagabond family. While Freshmen prepare for English A and Mill Si. 1, and even gentle men talk about studying the official scion of that worthy race wanders far afield, stopping now in a Maine lumbering hut, now in a Montreal saloon, and then in a New York night club as the light fancy of the vacationist happens to prompt him. This is all very well and quite as it should be, but in his absence I feel the urge...