Word: corners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason Arch McDonald is high favorite of the fans is that he avoids the hackneyed "hot-corner," "keystone-sack" school of baseball idiom. With Arch a pitcher is a pitcher, not a twirler; a catcher catches, he does not "do the receiving chore." The lingo he uses is his own or fresh from the dugout. Announcing a double play, for example, Arch is likely to report laconically: "two dead birds"; his fans know an easy fly as "a can of corn," an easy, high-hopping grounder as "Big Bill," a curve ball as "No. 2," and a slow ball...
...young King Farouk,* an archeological devotee who rushed to the spot by automobile, three canopic vases (vases with covers in the shape of human or animal heads) were opened. Each of these contained a silver box shaped like the mummy and bearing the name of Sheshonk. In one corner was a tall conical jar sealed with mud. This, not opened at latest reports, was expected to contain papyri or weapons...
...Siegal, who used to race Fronty-Fords on the dirt track circuit, decided three years ago that there was more money to be made in slower transportation. Racer Siegal sold his share in a Chicago Loop garage for $1,090 in 1936, hired three workmen, and in a corner of a West Side factory began making Moto-Skoots. By the end of the year he had sold 186 of them at $109 apiece and had taken over the whole factory. In 1937 the output was 2,700. This year, looking back on retail sales of more than...
With Lupien at first, Captain Johns at second, Keyes at short, and heavy-bitting Reine Grondahl holding down the hot corner, the infield stands complete. In the outfield are the veterans, Bob Garnett, Rud Hoye, adn Joe Soltz...
Within the past five months, two moves in the Good Neighbor (or Hemisphere Solidarity) policy of Franklin Roosevelt were to raise Colombia and Venezuela, the two countries on South America's northern corner, from ministerial to ambassadorial status in U. S. diplomatic ranking. Last week the State Department promoted Pan ama President Roosevelt named as U. S. Ambassador there his Minister to Uruguay...