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...both on and off the diamond. Hubbell's secret is that he possesses control, in alarming quantities, under all circumstances. Growing up on a farm in Carthage, Mo., he practiced for hours at a time a form of ingrown athletic solitaire which consisted of throwing stones at a barn door until he could unfailingly hit knotholes no bigger than a dime. When he joined a minor league team, he decided that he was so much worse than most pitchers that only a special kind of curve would save him. He perfected one, the screwball. In 1925, Detroit bought Pitcher...
Belinda Dan (Dobson) was born in a barn near Carleton, N. C., the daughter of a farmer who also made coffins for a living. Ambitious even in early girlhood, she hated the hard, constricting life of the farm, finally ran away. When she decided to become a nurse, the story really begins...
...that moment the barn began to roll over & over like a barrel. Racing and climbing, he managed to keep on top of it as it spun in the flood. It struck a house, was smashed to pieces. He leaped at the moment it struck, landed on the roof of the dwelling. Simultaneously its walls caved in. Victor clambered up the collapsing roof, was being submerged when another house boiled up in the flood and he clung to its eaves. He lost his grip and fell, but landed on a part of the roof of the barn, went spinning toward destruction...
Greatest REA triumph was the ramshackle old cow barn with its dirt floor. To protect the 70 cows from flies there were electrically-charged copper screens. When a fly tried to get through the ½in. openings, there was a little flash, a ping -and the dead fly fell into a metal trough at the bottom of the window. Each cow had its individual drinking fountain, which spouted water when nuzzled. Cows were cooled by electric fans, clipped by electric razors, milked by electric machines. The hay they ate was hoisted into the trough by electric motors. The milk they...
...interesting for its accounts of the unconventional military maneuvers of savages and settlers, least impressive in its pictures of frontier romance. The August choice of the Book-of-the-Month-Club, Drums Along the Mohawk belongs in the imposingly conscientious series of novels (Erie Water, Rome Haul, The Big Barn) that covers New York history from 1776 to 1865. It begins with a long description of the labors of Gilbert and Lana Martin in establishing their farm at Deerfield Settlement, shifts to a glimpse of the local militia harrying suspected Loyalists, to the burning of Deerfield, the battle of Oriskany...