Word: head
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...left by Dodge's catch of a hard fly. Mr. Dennison umpired very impartially, and was extremely satisfactory to both sides. The victory was mainly due to Latham's remarkable fielding, Nunn's fine batting and base running, and Alger's timely base hit. Harvard batted hard, but the head wind, and fine fielding of Wigton, Dodge, and Hunt lost several base-hits. Furman pitched very effectively; his delivery is very swift and hard to hit; towards the close of the game he was unable to do himself justice, owing to the swollen condition of Funkhouser's hands...
...exposed to all the influences of such a state of society as that in which we live, is yet afraid of exposing himself to the influence of a few Greek and Latin verses, acts like the felon who begged to have an umbrella held over his head from Newgate to the gallows, because it was a drizzly morning, and he was apt to take cold." I don't suppose that any instructor is so absurd as to think that a student will be injured by reading in the class what he has just read outside in preparing the lesson...
...second; Dailey hit to Thayer, who fielded O'Rourke out on the home plate; Leary going to third, and Dailey taking second, Hawkes tried a weak sacrifice hit to Wright, who fielded Leary out at home; Rowen then made a two-base hit, bringing in Dailey and Hawkes; Wood-head finished the inning by striking out. Manchester 3, Harvard 2. Fessenden led off in the midst of great applause with a two-base hit; Ernst followed with a single, Holden flied to second, and Fessenden scored on Wright's sacrifice hit, the latter going out at first; Howe was fielded...
...said the Bell to one of the Pumps, "how did you get your head so fearfully bruised...
...curious to make his acquaintance? Then stroll with me across the Yard to University. There he stands at the head of the steps. It is not quite time for recitation, but he has come over early for a purpose all his own. He is reading the notices on the bulletin board, - a very strange thing to do, - while he waits for a victim. He looks innocent as he stands there, but it is the innocence of a spider that is waiting...