Word: three
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...RANDALL,Sec. C. T. Co.OUR friend Skiapous, on his late pedestrian tour through the White Mountains, stopped at a wayside inn for a frugal meal, - something "light" before retiring. Having toyed with three beefsteaks, two mutton-chops, fried potatoes, two cups of tea, two glasses of milk, some cold meat, an omelet, hot biscuits innumerable, a mound of griddle-cakes, and the usual "fixins," he called for four toothpicks, and was about to leave the table; but the polite head-waiter begged him to remain because they had got a yoke of oxen barbecuing for him in the back-yard...
...Harvards got in 8 runs, on the third 5, and on the fourth 5, to the Browns 2, 1, and 1 in the same time. But here a change appeared. Kip seemed to lose his power of effective pitching, and Brown crept slowly up to our score; making three on the 5th, three on the 6th, and eight on the 7th. Brown went in on the ninth inning with twelve to tie, and thirteen to win the game, and nearly succeeded in doing this; for it was not until they had made eleven runs, and Tyng had been placed...
Nine of us, three on a seat, but nobody cramped in the least...
...draw up to their positions. Then came more delay in arrangement, and after much backing and changing they were held in line in the following order, beginning at the western bank: Amherst, Massachusetts Agricultural, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Wesleyan, Williams, Dartmouth, Trinity, Bowdoin, and Cornell; the position of the last three almost sealing their fate from the start. It was no ordinary sight, these sixty-six young men, the pick of eleven colleges, presented as they sat there, bending forward, all eyes on the starter, as motionless as statues. The brown skins and developed muscles showed a latent power which...
...delirious excitement. No one who saw that magnificent finish can ever forget it. The sight was as grand from one bank as the other. Those on the western bank saw Yale spurt and draw ahead of Amherst and Wesleyan, who were nearly neck-and-neck, and the three boats cross the line in a clump, while Harvard was seen almost in a line with them, but under the eastern bank. Those on the eastern bank could dimly see (for it was the evening of a rainy day) three boats almost lapping each other, the foremost with the blue scarcely discernible...