Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knew it, the Giants' boss slugger is inclined to be diffident about it all. Says Mize of the Babe's record: "I've never broken it and I don't know why I would this year." Walker Cooper admits that the Giants are likely to beat the team record this year-but, he adds, "it's up to the rest. Lord knows...
...Montreal the Australian Davis Cup team of Jack Bromwich, Dinny Pails and Colin Long beat Czechoslovakia in the interzone final, 4-1. The Aussies will tackle the U.S. in the challenge round at Forest Hills, at the end of this month...
Hewitt and his men also defeated a strong headwind, usually the bane of light crews, by showing better coordination and holding a higher beat than the Carlsons. Hewitt stroked 31 for most of the race, Carlson...
...news. A Northampton magistrate heard it said that Henry James Cumberpatch, a cinema doorman, "affected by the news from Palestine, took a revolver and went out into the street-quite wrongheadedly -to wreak vengeance upon some innocent Jew." Cumberpatch was charged with using the weapon as a club to beat one Dan Cipin, tailor...
Hewitt and his aides, Hoyt Ecker 48 and Daniel C. Gerould, were sure that the solid beat of the washboards could make love easy even at Wellesley. "If the UN had only known of us, things might be different," were Ecker's words as he swung into his Marmon. With a hand on the throttle, he added cryptically, "Jelly Roll has that something that Wellesley needs...