Word: bases
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...veterans who will return to the diamond are Captain H. W. Burns '28, center field, J. P. Chase '28, second base or left field, F. B. Cutts '28, pitcher, J. N. Barbee '28 pitcher, W. W. Lord '28, first base or left field, R. C. Sullivan '28, shortstop, G. E. Donaghy '29 short stop or third base, and W. B. Jones '28, right field...
...regard to the "experts," could such be found who would be willing to base their efforts on the criterion that punishment should be made commensurate with the crime? I list the following as representative specialists from which a board of correction might be chosen: Dean Roscoe Pound, Judge Julian W. Mack, Dr. George W. Kirchway, Hon. B. G. Lewis, Dr. Bernard Glueck, Dr. W. A. White, Dr. Herman M. Adler, Dr. William Healy. Do any of these believe in punishments to fit crimes? I believe...
...ambush on the heights commanding a narrow defile in the Nicaraguan mountains. Soon Captain Richard Livingston, U. S. M. C., commenced to lead through the defile an expeditionary force of 200 U. S. Marines, 200 Nicaraguan National Guardsmen, and 200 pack mules. Purpose: To capture Quilali, the remote war base of the recalcitrant General Augusto Calderon Sandino whose men were ambushing the defile. Reason: The Sandino troops have been declared outlaws and bandits. Cause: Sandino and his men were the only Nicaraguan faction which refused to lay down and sell their arms under the terms of national peace enforced...
Balk is current nomenclature of two sports. Baseball pitchers make a false motion to throw (called a balk); opponents are allowed to advance one base. Not so in billiards. In high class championship play, lines on the green cloth tablebed are drawn parallel to and 18 inches from the cushions. When two of the object balls are driven into any of the eight spaces bounded by these lines and the rectangles of their intersection such balls are "in balk...
...Think of it, brethren! . . . Rather a base and contemptible piece of diplomacy, methinks. My old college friend,* the Ambassador to the Court of St. James's fled to the highlands of Scotland to avoid meeting the distinguished tourist...