Word: besting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have plenty of respect at all times for Luke, who led the American League's hitters in 1936 and 1943, has a lifetime batting average of 312. But they are wariest when he complains loudest about his health, for it is a long-established fact that he plays best when he feels worst...
...only American League shortstop who has ever led his league twice in batting, and his 1936 average, .388, is the best figure for any big-time shortstop in modern baseball history. Appling makes more errors than a star infielder should, but he has led American League shortstops seven times in number of assists, and he is a wizard with bad-hopping grounders. He has made a crack double-play man out of the Sox's young second baseman, Cass Michaels, with whom Appling rooms on the road...
Maggie made her mind up about another detail: there must be a shorter and more understandable way to tell it than the lengthy and oversweet Barbier and Carré book to which Gounod had set his music. So she picked out the best of Gounod's arias, commissioned English Poet Stephen Spender to write a narration "more in the spirit of Goethe" that would tell the story clearly and bridge the gaps. Last week, a summer audience in sport shirts and bright silk prints packed the sweltering little white frame playhouse at Stockbridge, Mass, for the first performance...
...page anniversary edition, SRL gave book lovers a nostalgic look at news events all the way back to 1924. But what most SRL readers would like best were the reappraisals of books of the past quarter-century-though they would not necessarily share the harshness of most of SRL's critical judgments...
...Stucco? Nonetheless, the average citizen is apt to want to loot around a bit, and find out what is going on and consider what his neighbors or potential neighbors think. Last week, one oi the best places in the U.S. to watch what was going on was southern California...