Word: bases
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...real business of living," but many a boy who remembers both Stearns the coach and Stearns the friendly, gentlemanly, informal chapel speaker, will boil that long phrase down to diamond parlance: "There is no short cut from first to third. In the game of life, too, touch second base...
...instruments which are eligible in the trials are, for the Banjo Club, the ten or banjo, straight banjo, piano, traps, saxophone, cornet, flute and piccolo, and for the Mandolin Clubs the mandolin, mandola, mando-cello, guitar, violin, cello and base viol...
...motor world today. In 1925, the Fisher Body Corporation built more than half the automobile bodies for cars having a base price in excess of $500. (Seventeen years ago this firm was housed in one small building.) President William A. Fisher: "Our tremendous business has resulted in achievements it would otherwise have been impossible to attain...
...secret phial which the Pope himself filled with balsam and essence of musk before handing it to Monsignor Ferdinand de Croji, whom he charged to deliver it to Queen Elizabeth as a testimonial of his esteem. The Rose, for the benefit of the calculating, weighs 1.100 kilograms (2b.). The base bears the inscription in Latin: "To Elizabeth, Queen of Belgium, given by Pius XI P. M. on the XXV anniversary of her august wedding...
Italy. The noted volcanologist, Professor Malladra, expressed satisfaction at a minor eruption of Vesuvius, which frightened out of their wits the grape growers who till the rich soil at its base. "There is no cause for alarm," he said. "I myself have been growing more alarmed month by month as the volcano has not erupted. The nature of its volcanic structure is such that it should erupt at a regular three-monthly period. Recently it has lagged behind its period for five months; and I confess to having felt great uneasiness lest the period should stretch to a year...