Word: battered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eddy's Science & Health. Mrs. Kirk made what looked like a complete recovery but later she said she suffered from headaches, a pain in the nose and tremors of the left hand. She had made good money as a cake-baker and the tremors kept her from mixing batter with her oldtime deftness. Mrs. Kirk thereupon sued George Cisler for $10,000 damages...
...outfit for eight innings and struck out six men. In the final inning of the game Tommy Bilodeau was called in to finish off the last man. There were two outs and a man on first and third; Bilodeau tossed two balls, and on the second, Barnicle, the batter, popped out to end the game...
...went to Europe, where he made caffeine from tea sweepings. Back in the U. S., he claimed to be the only man making aspirin in this country before the War. He also sold wrinkle eradicators. weight reducers, bust developers, hair restorers, Nuxated Iron* which made Ty Cobb "greatest baseball batter of all time." which enabled Prizefighter Jess Willard to "triumph over" Prizefighter Jack Johnson, and Prizefighter Jack Dempsey "to whip" Prizefighter Jess Willard. Currently E. Virgil Neal has a cosmetic factory in Paris, one in London, and sells "Tokalon" powders and creams "in 100 countries." He would sell his latest...
...remedy, suggested it to friends on his hometown team in the Southern Association. Last week at the convention of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues in Galveston, the Southern Association announced adoption of a new rule: When there are two out. and the pitcher walks the batter on four consecutive balls, "runners occupying bases shall be advanced two bases, except in the event both second base and third base are occupied, when the runner on third shall score and the runner on second shall advance to third...
Some critics approved the basic idea of the rule, but suggested it ought not to apply if the pitcher begins by throwing a strike to the batter. Others tartly observed that the pitcher could still get around the new rule by hitting the batter with the ball, walking him to first base...