Word: berths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moving Ben Prouty into the second base hole should help out Coach Fred Mitchell with a tough situation. The two previous incumbents. Johnny Fitzpatrick ad Phil Hines were hitting for 100 and .222 respectively. Ware, who will return to his old center field berth was swatting the apple for .286 when Prouty took over...
...position of Freshman proctor is much sought after, largely because of a prevailing but fallacious notion that it affords a soft berth with free bed and board and no arduous routine duties attached. However, those who are in a position to recall incidents of their supposedly halcyon freshman days in the Yard, will recall that the duties of the office, like Bacon's intellect, take all the world of human affairs as their province. The number of embarrassing incidents such as the recent affaire Wigglesworth, in which three Freshmen were caught in the toils of the law for throwing milkbottles...
...strange looking, 19-foot, rodent-like vehicle meandered up and down on Massachusetts Avenue in the neighborhood of the Square on Saturday morning. Curious onlookers were informed that the unique machine was a "dymaxion," the solid steel, berth-equipped automobile of the future...
Nevin, his throwing arm still bothered by a football injury, is battling Gleason for the right to the first base job, and Woodruff and Sargent both are receiving stern competition for the shortstop berth from little Mike Hovenanian...
...Cagney twists his mat face into all sorts of hyena snarls; e bungs the ladies in the snout, and telescopes their jaws as the occasion requires; he enters the picture as a tough usher, graduates to the jewel thief class, kicks up a jump to a movie star's berth, and finishes the whirlwind by aiding the police in a running machine-gun duel with the old gang, in the course of which the old gang is almost totally exterminated. Naturally, that Cagney trademark, rough treatment of the squooshy sex, is not neglected. In a scene which will feed...