Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Allen who threw to Smith, making a double play and shutting the side out. Harvard came to the bat prepared to die hard. Willand hit safely amid wild cheers. Allen knocked a foul ball, but the umpire refused to allow it, although the ball hit Allen on the shoulder and became a dead ball anyway, and he was thrown out at first; Willard reaching second, going third on Marsh's error. Foster was called out on strikes. Henshaw made a rattling hit, but Willard remained on third in order to keep the catcher up. A passed ball sent him across...
...Navy Yard. A sentry or two stared at them as they passed through the gate and entered the government grounds. It is a pretty place - the yard - with green terraces and broad, asphalt walks. In front of the barracks a blue-coat with his musket on his shoulder is striding up and down, and a couple of brass howitzers standing on the terrace glisten in the sun. Hurrying by we stopped a moment in front of the handsome stone dry-dock, built in the presidency of the second Adams, and in which the "Pieter von Leninck" of the Red Star...
...does not get a push from the stretcher soon enough. He draws his oar up on the last part of the finish. No. 7 is rather stiff and disconnected in his motions. He is slow in starting forward, and in coming back lets his slide get ahead of his shoulders. He does not draw his hands way in to his body. No. 6 does not get any reach with his body, and is slow in starting forward. He swings back too far, and does not row his shoulders back, thus making his finish weak. He swings out from...
Stroke swings back too far. On the full reach he swings down after he has slid out, letting his outside shoulder come forward. No. 7 starts fairly quickly, but he does not keep his slide under control and rushes down. He makes a break in the middle of his stroke after his legs are straight and before he pulls his hands in, so that there is no power in the middle of his stroke. No. 6 is slow in starting for ward. he lets his legs wobble, and does not sit up to his work. He hurries his finish...
...running, and any one, unless he walks carefully, is liable to get a severe fall. There is actually, serious danger of injury; a little slip in leaping, or a failure to alight squarely on the feet from the rings or some appliance, may cause broken bones or a dislocated shoulder...