Word: basely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home of the British Vice Consul was struck three times, and fires surrounded the German Embassy & Consulate where, all night, the Consul General and his wife waited with cans of water to fight the flames. As morning came they watched helplessly while 100 Chinese, trapped against the base of the city wall outside their house, were burned to death...
...still in his prime - when Manager Miller Huggins of the New York Yankees, one fine day in June 1925, stepped up to a clumsy, rosy-cheeked rookie his scouts had picked up on the Columbia campus. "Gehrig," he muttered, "you take Wally Pipp's place at first base today." Last week, for the first time since that faraway day, the Yankees started a game without Lou Gehrig...
...Bostonians kept this lead until the fifth inning when the Samborskimen combined an enemy error and two bases on balls with three sparkling one-base hits by Bill Parsons, Bud Fine gan, and Sullivan to push in three tallies...
...Stahlmen threatened in the second and third, but just could not produce when the chips were down. Gene Lovett finally scored a run from third base in the fourth after a foul fly catch carried first baseman Linden right into the crowd. The Indiana, with Broberg again providing the big punch, all but sewed up the game in the seventh with two more tallies...
...ninth the huge Indian house-party crowd had a few anxious moments after Hein's two base bobble, but Lovett's fly ended the rally...