Word: batting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tall John Herrick stationed under the basket to tip in any shot that misses he center of the rim. When the players have the "eye", the system is unbeatable. In the same way, a great deal of the team's success depends on whether Herrick has the touch to bat the ball...
...Bat bending and the organization of groups of concentrators in Biology to meet with research men in that field are recent developments in the Lowell House Scientific Society...
...Raymond Lee Ditmars, famed herpetologist of the New York Zoological Park ("Bronx Zoo"), has discovered that vampire bats from the American tropics do not, as commonly supposed, suck blood from the animals on which they feed. They lap it up, the tongue darting in & out of the wound four times a second. When Dr. Ditmars brought back four vampires from Trinidad, it seemed a good chance for scientists to check another theory-that the bat's saliva contains some substance which prevents blood from coagulating and so keeps the nutrient liquid flowing freely...
...Ditmars bats were allowed to feed on experimental animals by zoologists who measured the clotting time of blood mixed with vampire saliva against that of other blood. They found no difference in c'otting time or coagulating substance, according to a Science Service report last week. To keep the blood flowing, the bat appears to massage the wound with its tongue...
...parts with beautiful feminine script and in others with a design of Chinese characters. He apparently expected to have it unfold into an emotional outburst of affection or something which the girl was too embarrassed to send in simple English, judging from the way he fiddled with his bat...