Word: cage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flying squad of the Three Little Steamshovels, out to develop some big league baseball players who aren't from the corn country or the south, landed is Briggs Cage Saturday and dropped a few hints to the assembled mob of high school coaches, H.A.A. moguls and passers-by on the care and feeding of future stars. The upshot of the session was the startling intelligence that each ballplayer is an individual problem and must be treated as such by his coach...
John P. "Stuffy" McInnis will launch his Harvard career Saturday when he joins four Boston Braves to lecture on baseball techniques in Briggs Cage...
...spent Groundhog Day quietly, but darted an occasional glance around her cage in search of the proverbial shadow, Poor lighting rendered her vigilance fruitless...
...Dodds, still the country's top miler, worked out at Briggs Cage yesterday either for exercise, recreation, or perhaps to show Crimson trackmen how it's done. Dodds wasn't just on a sight-seeing tour. He precedes his Wheaton College (Illinois) track team, which he is entering in the annual B.A.A. Games Saturday. Coach Jaakko Mikkola was not particularly awed by Dodds's performance. He noted that the "flying parson" was "out of condition and quite a bit below his usual time...
...usual, had the last word. Explaining the involved mysteries of Hooperatings to his (according to Hooper) diminishing audience, Allen said: "[Hooper] calls up a few people . . . and tells you how many listeners you have in the whole 48 states. It's like multiplying the bottom of a bird cage and telling you how many grains of sand there are in the Sahara Desert...