Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vince Moravec, who is currently Adolph Samborski's number one boy on the mound for the Varsity baseball team, is the same young man whose 200 pounds of fullback left Dick Harlow's "Informal" line a sadder and wiser crew last fall, when Moravec helped the New London Submarine Base in its lambasting of the Harlowmen. This fall he's on our side...
Johnny Florentino led off with a fly to right in the eighth. Herb Neal drew a base on balls, stole second, and then took third as Bob Carlson flied out to right. Farrell's sharp single drove him in with the winning run. The rally ended with "Armie" Essayan being robbed of a hit by a good catch in right-center field...
Harvard bounced right back in the home half of the second and took the lead with a three-run rally. Carlson led off with a base on balls. Dave Farrell singled. Essayan advanced the runners with a sacrifice, and Moravec struck out. Sullivan then hit a sharp ball to short. Pierce muffed it, allowing Carlson and Farrell to score, and Sullivan reached second. Harford then came through with a single, scoring Sullivan from first to end the inning...
...million base took some building. Going ashore, the landing parties got stuck in volcanic beach powder deeper and dustier than Iwo Jima's. At first, the G.I.s ate corn willie three times a day, supplemented with what they could shoot and fish. Wild goats gnawed their communication lines to pieces. Moths followed smokers and smothered out cigarets. By Christmas 1941, the Navy log read: 'All hands tireder than all hell...
...Boss Herbert Knott Sorrell took on ten of Hollywood's major studios last week, and won out. In a two-day strike, the 7,000 "off-production"* workers of Sorrell's young, tough Conference of Studio Unions won every wage-&-hour demand, including a 25% increase in base pay. For the first time in Hollywood history, studios will guarantee their off-production workers, by far the biggest part of their staffs, a work week. This meant that any time these employes are called to work they must be paid for a week, even if they work only...