Word: ball
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Floyd Stahl, the new baseball coach is over optimistic would be unfair. He merely is looking for and expecting the best. He is full of ideas on how to improve and popularize baseball at Harvard and is positive on one point; "We're going to be a hustling ball club...
Soupbone. A ten-year-old boy with an infected humerus (upper-arm bone) broke his arm while throwing a cricket ball. Dr. Groves cut and shaped two pieces of beef-bone, scraped out some marrow in each end of the boy's broken humerus, drove one piece of beef-bone up the humerus, the other down, and joined them together with metal bolts. The boy recovered in six weeks and within ten years the beef-bone was almost entirely absorbed in new bone tissue which had grown around it. The metal bolts remained embedded in the bone...
...carry John Henry a few rounds because they were pals, fellow Negroes. But those who fight Joe nowadays also fight a terrible fear of what he can do to them, and Joe mowed John Henry down in about the time it takes to tee up and drive a golf ball...
...they might, the academy boys simply could not find the range on the Crimson basket. The tenacious guarding of the Crimson prevented the Milton quintet from working the ball in near the basket, and even good set shots from out on the floor were few and far between. The harder they tried the wilder they became, and the final gun found them vainly trying to connect from almost mid-court...
With a Russian Imperial Ball motif to inspire them, the Bellboys will ring in the new term on Friday, February 17 at the annual Lowell House winter dance. Richard Himber and his orchestra will furnish the rhythm for the affair which is to last from 10 to 3 o'clock...