Word: batting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bart Harvey promises to be the outstanding Sophomore find on the squad. On the southern trip he led the regular hitters with a fat .357 batting average, smacking out five hits in 14 times at bat. His base blows included a double and a triple. In addition he showed up well in the field with 13 assists and one error for a .958 average...
Bubbling Bob, better than ever, is the vehicle's only Hope, and keeps the show rolling with a laugh every minute on the minute. Known as the human bat, cannonball, and dynamo, he fights his way through cannibals, a gorilla, and a Crosby, but is not sugar-daddy enough to win marsh-mallow-momma Lamour...
...stages of the painting, before its medicine was too strong to be dangerous, official pictures were allowed.) For three days the sand painters worked at their picture-a great circle of square-shouldered spirits interspersed with bright-hued corn, tobacco, squash and bean plants, a dragon fly and a bat...
...West there was a problem right off the bat. The capitulation of the French deprived Britain of important ports at Toulon, Oran, Bizerte, Algiers, Corsica; and the laying down of French arms left the flanks of the British in the Eastern basin bare. Accordingly a British squadron put two battleships and a battle cruiser out of action at Mers-el-Kebir (Oran) on July 3. This brilliantly executed attack was led by Vice Admiral Sir James Fownes ("Slim") Somerville, whose knowledge of naval traditions is indicated by the fact that his hobby is the highly technical one of making ship...
Main Event. At 12:30 the real show began. Warning was given of a squadron of dive bombers-lean, bat-winged Junkers 87B, the first to appear against the British in the Mediterranean-streaking in from the north at 18,000 feet. In an instant the Illustrious was achurn. Over the loudspeaker system brassed the marine bugler's warning, the boatswain's call: "All hands to action stations." Gun crews jumped to their pompoms. Pilots raced for their planes. Down the deck roared the first flight of Fairey Fulmar fighters, bouncing up into the sky. Behind them...