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...sure to get on because nobody can catch him. But he [Cerv] wants to hit now and I give him his chance to play center and he does me a good job because he's a strong fella. But some fellas don't know about getting a bat with a thick handle like that Chicago fella [Nellie Fox] does. He knows when you get it on the fists your muscle ain't worth a damn. But do you think these fellas understand that...
...confirmed by Winston Churchill, who refers feelingly in his memoirs [A Roving Commission] to his early bouts with this primer. The pre-primer you mention as now being in use in Detroit schools sounds remarkably like our old primer, which also used simple drawings and rhymes. Cat, fat, bat, says the Detroit primer. Pat a fat cat, said Reading Without Tears. Winston Churchill evidently finally learned to read, but I don't suppose his parents demanded their money back because Reading Without Tears made Winston cry. Nor, I'm sure, did they jump to the conclusion that their...
...expert advice for a man plagued by bats in his window shutters (a bat expert advised that he use a broom and let more light in between the shutter leaves...
...their hopes in hard-hitting Ted Williams. When he broke off a legal skirmish with his wife and returned to baseball, Ted found the Sox in seventh place; at week's end they were in fourth, only 3½ games off the pace. Though Ted's big bat was a factor in the resurgence of the Red Sox, most of the credit goes to their little (5 ft. 6 in., 150 lbs.) shortstop, Billy Klaus. A veteran castoff from the Indians, Cubs, Braves and Giants, Billy, at 26, has been batting back and forth between the minors...
Soon pupils are confronted with rhymes (cat, fat, bat, etc.) and lists of words beginning with the same consonant. Thev might also be asked to pick out from a series of words (boy, toy, boy, dog, box) the two that are alike. They learn other words by how they are used in a sentence (e.g., milk, from "The cat drinks milk") are encouraged to look up unfamiliar words in the dictionary. Prefixes and suffixes, vowels and diphthongs, combination words such as oatmeal and airplane are all taught in their place...