Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eagles looked a bit better in the doubles but not very much so. Ames and Hughes had to play 6-4, 6-2 sets to down the first BC team, but the other two Crimson combinations--Ames and Hughes and Dave Key and Vince Zinsser--were less harassed...
Briefly, the theory is this: Instead of having a few power hitters on your team, you make a distinct effort to have nine average hitters, all as equally potent as possible. This may seem a bit ludicrous, until you stop and consider the effect upon the opposition's strategl...
Coach Jack Barnaby has juggled his lineup a bit since the end of the vacation trip. Billiard Hughes, formerly number five man, will move up to number four on the basis of his victories in the Army and Navy matches. Jack Frey drops down to Hughes' old number five position...
...usual movie yarn. To all those for whom the plot's the thing, for whom heartbeats are more important than dance steps, South Pacific will seem-as it may well be-a perfect union of film and footlights. For others, a musical play will have to rank a bit higher as drama than South Pacific, if the loss in dancing, décor, and musicomedy's festal airs is not to smack of larceny...
...burst of fair weather and Easter buying, department store sales for the week ending April 2 were 8% above last year's. But the gain was too small to cause much cheering. The Federal Reserve Board gloomily observed that sales for the year would probably be down a bit...