Word: slackness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...although Yale played her regular team the work was even closer than the score indicates. When time was called in the last half the ball was within a yard of Yale's goal. Pennsylvania would have won the game but for two costly errors of the backs, and slack play in the last ten minutes...
...seems necessary to say a word to the Glee Club. Several times since the mid years we have been told that the members of the club were becoming very careless, were slack in attending rehearsals, were disposed to rest on the reputation won in their Western trip...
...They could hit neither swift nor slow balls. Such opponents as these do far more injury than good to the nine. A much better team could have been chosen from our own men than that which represented Bowdoin yesterday. It is conducive to careless base running, poor fielding and slack play generally. It is enough to spoil any pitcher to tell him to "let them hit it" or to "pitch easy." We trust that no more nines of this description will play on Holmes this season. The game was called at the sixth inning on account of the lateness...
...used when one team desires to hold what it has got, and does wish the knot to slip. The knot is made with the right hand and held in place by the left; if made too far from the body it is of no advantage, as all the slack is lost on the next heave. When one anchor heaves, the other goes back on his toes, bracing his heels together, and then comes forward as the other goes back, thus losing nothing. Sometimes in this way, or by a very quick heave, the other anchor is "caught" in technical parlance...
...Sewall, Rev. Samuel May, Lucy Stone, William L. Bowditch, John G. Whittier, T. W. Higginson, Rev. James Freeman Clarke, Willim Lloyd Garrison, Jr., Julia Ward Howe, Hon. Albert Palmer, Ednah D. Cheney, H. B. Blackwell, Elizur Wright, Hon. Thomas Russell, Richard P. Hallowell, Chas. W. Slack and George W. Lowther...