Word: fields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME took advantage of a great national need. TIME could have monopolized its field. But it has not. Nor will it, unless it cleans house...
...lacking an infield of major league quality; Cincinnati, slipped from its lead because of injuries to valuable pitchers; Pittsburgh with no one in the box except "Spitballer" Grimes; Boston in seventh place, apparently hopeless, but having one great player, perhaps the greatest in the National League, famed in the field, sensational at bat; and Philadelphia in the "cellar." Keeping this player in mind, critics considered the American League clubs, lined up smoothly behind the Yankees: at Philadelphia a galaxy of famed veterans; a young St. Louis team, fighting, surprising; Washington with many stars that might develop; Cleveland slumping after...
...Manager Harris of Washington sent Goslin lame-armed into left field, told Shortstop Reeves to run out and help him re-turn his catches. Perhaps Goslin's bad arm had keyed up his batting, some followers suggested; most agreed that he was hitting beyond his real abilities-no one could be as good as .414. As a superior player critics pointed to Rogers ("Rajah") Hornsby, manager, second baseman of the Braves, leading the National League at bat with an average close to .400. Some sporting writers, fond of big words, spoke of him as a genius, others, with...
...personnel of the company from the beginning was made up of men who knew and loved fine things, mechanically and artistically, so the company was born to occupy the fine car field...
...position of Packard in the fine car field is largely the work of Alvan Macauley. He began as a lawyer in Washington, D.C. A good friend, Edward Rector,* recommended him to the National Cash Register Co. as a patent attorney. There, he soon turned himself into an inventor and engineer. Later, he went to the American Arithmometer Co. and turned it into the potent Burroughs Adding Machine Co. In 1910, when Packard was making four-cylinder cars, 2,000 a year, Mr. Macauley became general manager. James Ward