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Holy Cross evened the score in the next stanza on two singles and a sacrifice fly. Only a bounceless strike to the plate from Crimson center fielder Charlie Santos-Buch for the third out kept the Crusaders from pulling ahead after two more hits...

Author: By David A. Wilson, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crusaders Nip Crimson, 6-5, On Walks, Ninth Inning Error | 4/23/1980 | See Source »

...hazy afternoon in 1937 a low-wing monoplane dropped on Croydon Aerodrome, London, in a landing which Aeroplane described as "the bounceless plop of a mashed potato." The plane had the flag of the Rising Sun painted on its white flank; it was named The Divine Wind. Its pilot, a 24-year-old wizard of endurance named Masaaki Iinuma, had just flown all the way from Tokyo (via Formosa, Indo-China, India, Iraq, Greece, Italy, France) in four days. Aeroplane, remarking that the crowd of greeters at the field nearly trampled underfoot half a dozen very small Japanese girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Pilot Iinuma's Lesson | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

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