Word: batting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles E. Mohr of Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences reported in Frontiers last week on his ten-year study of the homing urge of the common (Little Brown) bat. Most bats can be caught only in caves when hibernating. No one has yet devised a bat trap for catching them on the wing. But in winter they can easily be picked from their underground perches and fitted with light aluminum bands for identification. Mohr has been banding bats for years...
...Angeles after a 15-rounder that drew a crowd of 19,000 (and a $71,000 gate); at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Pep, who has won 54 fights in a row, is the third featherweight champion to come from Hartford. His predecessors: "Kid" Kaplan and "Bat" Battalino...
Last week Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus (The Bat), considered by many to be the greatest of all operettas, bubbled out of the high-brow auditoriums and hit Broadway. Broadway's Bat had undergone some important changes since Johann Strauss composed it. The changes were the work of famed Viennese Director Max Reinhardt, who used the same version he produced in Berlin 13 years ago and was afraid to take to Vienna for fear of scandalizing the tradition-minded Viennese. Director Reinhardt has whipped Fledermaus' drama into a light fluff, flavored it with a medley of Strauss...
...honor students to join him in the "White House" game room, where they ate wieners and hashed over the state of the world. He strode around the campus hatless and with a pipe in his mouth, worked in his shirtsleeves, installed a typewriter at his desk on which to bat out ideas. Undergraduates soon began to cry "Hello, Joe" when they passed his house at night. He abolished fraternity rush week and undergraduate car-driving (because of the war), made short shrift of flunkers...
Following a brief session of cheers from the Navy stands which were answered from across the way by shouts of "Sink the Navy" (sabotage?), Captain McIntosh strode to the plate to bat out the first ball, the latter being thrown in by an equally high representative of the civiliau or home defense unit. In an auspicious manner, the Captain got a solid hit, which made a hit with everyone and should have warned the civilians of the things to come...