Word: casimir
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...unexpected developments yesterday struck a modicum of fear into the wallets of Yankee backers. Casimir Konstanty's 75th appearance of the year will be his first as a starter. While surpassing Giant Ace Adams pre-Mexico record of 70 relief performances, Jim won 16, lost seven, and became the odds-on favorite for the league's Most Valuable Player. But before Sawyer deposited him permanently in the bull-pen, Konstanty was, generously speaking...
Allen, Samuel Marston '51, Barrett, Theodore Boutelle '51, Benson, Frank Weston, 2d '49, Chadwick, William John '51 (Captain), Flagg, Washington Allston, Jr. '52, House, Theodore Grant '52, Marston, Byrne Richard '51, Monslage, Robert Pearce '51, Morgan, John Casimir, Jr. '52, Dexter, Nathaniel Thayer '50 (Manager...
...youth Ivan Stepanovich Mazepa (1644-1709) was sent to Warsaw to pick up a courtly education as a page to King John Casimir V of Poland. Mazepa, the story goes, picked up the wife of a Polish nobleman. The lady's husband surprised the lovers and ended the courtly phase of Mazepa's education by tying him naked on the back of a wild horse and turning the horse out onto the steppes. Rescued by Ukrainian Cossacks, Mazepa soon rose to leadership among them. When Charles XII began his invasion of Russia, Mazepa, to the disgust of most...