Word: clutching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides the change in personnel, there may be a revision in the batting order to take advantage of what clutch hitting remains. Barry Turner will probably draw the starting assignment against the Big Red, although he may split the pitching with Ira Godin. Godin must face the Cadets here Saturday...
...Clutch hitting, something which has been conspicuously absent in the Harvard baseball team since the Navy game, brought Stuffy McInnis' crew a 7 to 6 victory over Columbia here Saturday and moved that plucky band into a second place tie with Penn in the EIBL...
With Nanking in their clutch, the Reds struck and took east & west. Hankow, key to the middle Yangtze and the Pittsburgh of China, seemed ready to go the way of Nanking; a crack Red army from Manchuria, under General Lin Piao, was advancing hard from the north. In China's northwest, long-beleaguered Taiyuan, site of the biggest Nationalist arsenal below the Great Wall, fell before another Communist blow...
...turbines to transmit the engine's power to the wheels without the use of gears. But it also eliminates Dynaflow's one drawback: a slight feeling of "mushiness" or power wastage during acceleration. The Ultramatic overcomes this by having, in addition to the hydraulic drive, an automatic clutch which puts the car into direct drive when a certain speed is reached, thus eliminating slipping. At any speed between 15 and 55 m.p.h., the motorist can also switch from hydraulic to direct mechanical drive by momentarily raising the accelerator...
Woicott Strong in Clutch...