Word: bases
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Watson. No one knows better than James E. Watson of Indiana how absurd it is to think that James E. Watson of Indiana could ever become President of the U. S. But politics is like baseball. Getting men on bases is what counts. A base on balls is as good as a clean single if there is a home-run slugger in the lineup. The total runs, not the hits, win the game. In the Republican league, James E. Watson plays on the anti-Hoover team, whose hardest hitter in June may well be James E. Watson's good...
...Supply ships (convoys), plying between fleet and bases, attended by "control" and "base force" squadrons...
...first planned to pitch our base camp on the Farnsworth-Treasure Room Plateau, but by dint of much boosting from behind we were able to drive our pack animals higher. Sliding, slipping, going down on all four haunches (something a yak is rarely forced, or even able, to do) the animals somehow reached the General Reading Plateau. Here we pitched Camp No. 1, twenty thousand feet above the sea, one hundred feet above the street car line...
...Burns '28 was awarded both the Wendell Bat and the Wingate Trophy at the baseball dinner at the Harvard Club of Boston last night. The Wendell Bat, donated by Barret Wendell Jr. '02, was awarded to Captain Burns for totalling the most points in sacrifice hits, stolen bases, runs, and safe arrivals at first base during the past season. The Wingate Trophy, donated by D. J. P. Wingate '14, was given to Burns for being the best all around player of the season...
Pearl Harbor, the great strategic naval base of the Pacific, has been erected at the crossroads of the ocean.* Ships from San Francisco, Los Angeles, Panama, Auckland in New Zealand, Sydney in New South Wales (Australia), Hong Kong, Yokohama, Manila arrive and set forth daily...