Word: batted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...medicine. Although the title "has come to be equated with medical practitioner," he continues, "by ancient definition, 'doctor' means one sufficiently skilled in any branch of knowledge to teach it." Dr. Seymour acknowledges that there are some weak programs leading to Ph.D.s (a onetime Brooklyn Dodger bat boy, he got his from Cornell for a history of baseball). But at its best, he writes, "the character of the work entailed in obtaining the Ph.D. from a first-class university calls forth intellectual powers of a higher order than does that involving the M.D. Although the latter is usually...
...critic once wrote that nothing was more tedious than mediocre poetry, and tedium sits like a lead bat on this reader's shoulder. Aside from two good poems from Daniel Langton and a garbled experiment in sound by C. C. Abt, the rest of Audience poetry ranges a dusty spectrum from the merely interesting to the very bad. Four poetesses help anchor down the ends...
...wordlessly as a smile brushed his face. Even his closest friends could not tell whether it was anger or chagrin or guilt-as well as a sense of having failed the Administration-that whipped his mind. "He is not the kind of guy that can sit down and bat it around," said a staffer. "Even with his close friends, he can't be personal...
...Malley's opponents still figure that they have a few more turns at bat. Week's end saw the start of hearings on a series of taxpayers' suits to stop the Dodgers from building their new ballpark. But if the results of the referendum stand up in court, unofficial scorers will surely write into the record book that it was a portly old relief pitcher named Walter O'Malley who came on in the final innings to win the game...
Johnson walked in another run, and two more tallies crossed the plate when Allan Pond lined a bases-loaded single to center. The Crimson finally managed to get two outs without further damage, but with Schumann at bat for he second time in the inning, Len Hassler raced one of Johnson's pitches to the plate and scored the final Eli run on a steal of home...