Word: pressingly
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...feel great reluctance in crediting as genuine the remarks concerning the game of base-ball reported by the press as having been delivered by President Eliot at a recent meeting of the Boston High School Teachers' Association...
Prof. G. H. Palmer's translation of the first twelve books of the Odyssey is now in press...
Prof. Shaler's "First Book in Geology," to be published by Ginn, Heath and Co., is now in press...
...lull in the exercises the general development prizes were awarded for the year 1883-84. They were presented throug the H. A. A. by anonymous donor. Made of beaten silver, two pitchers and a goblet, of the heaviest plate, they attracted general notice as they stood on the press table during the afternoon. There were 73 contestants and J. C. Adams '87 won the first, having made an improvement of 261 3-10: J. W. Dudley, '87, second, 244 5-10; R. Briggs, '87, third...
...Rosecrans' order the army now retired into Bhattanooga. Bragg advancing occupied the surrounding heights across the river. These were Missionary Ridge, Orchard Knob, and Lookout Mountain. So close upon the town did he press that communication with nashville was about cut off and semi-starvation troubled the troops in the beleagured town. Better times, however, were close at hand. Grant