Word: batting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Binding Force. Before World War II, Germany's Werner Heisenberg theorized mathematically that the protons and neutrons in a nucleus might bat electric charges rapidly back & forth among themselves. While a particle had possession of a charge, it would be a proton. When it lost the charge, it would become a neutron. Heisenberg reasoned that such "charge exchange" might explain the binding force, but he couldn't prove...
...Capp at Bat...
...bat, now, fellas? That boy is pitching some wild ones. In the first place, my strips did not picture the Senate as a whole. I clearly indicated, in both drawings and dialogue, that this was a special group, determined to kill a bill to put Congress on the air for all America to hear...
Victory Dance. The loudspeaker roared out "Lavagetto batting for Stanky." Oldtimer "Cookie" Lavagetto, a near has-been, who had been a Dodger longer (eleven years) than anyone else on the team, rubbed dirt on his hands and strode up to bat. He swung viciously at the first pitch, trying too hard. The next pitch was high but Cookie swung again-and this time connected. The ball screamed toward right field, hit the fence six feet over Outfielder Tommy Henrich's head...
...stayed there ever since." He bitterly regrets the day "the male and female crooner, or moaner, began to trouble the night air. . . . 'Craziness' in entertainment . . . is still the general note today. Nothing must mean anything-a reflection, no doubt, of the general life of this age. Bat's wings, bat's eyes, and bat's brains...