Word: batted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forth. Fourteen automobiles full of deputies arrived and were met by a barrage of rocks that broke their windows. Wounded men fell on every side. A would-be good Samaritan, Elmo Botkin, rushed in bearing a first aid kit, was promptly felled by a picket with a baseball bat, received an apology when he came to, was hospitalized. A short distance from the heart of the strife a peddler placidly sold ice cream bricks to the combatants. One striker went into combat eating ice cream with his left hand, swinging a club with his right. The riot lasted...
Daniel E. Burbank '37 went in on the Winthrop mound and held the Gold Coasters in check as he and his teammates romped at bat, scoring four runs in the first inning on one hit and numerous errors, nine runs in the second, and two in the fourth, fifth, and sixth innings...
Cool and self-confident was Premier Nahas for he knew he had the whip hand. Egypt off her own bat can legally renounce the capitulatory privileges of any power as she did in 1923 in Russia's case. The Premier preferred not to resort to highhandedness, yet it was crystal-clear to the delegates that he had won his battle before he started. The nub of the discussion was whether or not Egypt would be willing to abolish capitulations by slow degrees...
With reference to Mr. Warren Terry's letter (TIME, March 15), may I not come to bat for Senator Nye despite the fact that he has chosen to endorse a cigaret...
...quickly to Detroit, Chicago, Seattle. Badminton literature began when Squash-Badminton appeared in 1934, grew when American Lawn Tennis added a badminton section last autumn, came of age last week when the national championships made badminton in daily papers jump from the society to the sports pages. Average badminton bat weighs 5 oz. to a tennis racquet's 13½ oz. Birds, still patterned after the Duke of Beaufort's champagne corks, weigh 80 grains. Best birds and bats are imported. Birds are made of fine-grained Spanish cork, covered with French kid, dressed in feathers from Czechoslovakian...