Word: franticness
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...Game. After three innings, Manager Harris of Washington hit a home run. In the sixth, the Giants countered with 3 runs. In the eighth, Manager Bucky Harris, with two of his subordinates on bases, scored both by whanging another crucial hit over third base. Score tied; Series tied; everyone frantic. Pitcher Marberry having been taken out and also pitchers Ogden and Mogridge, there was none left to defend Washington but "Good Old Walter." Forth he came, bravely he pitched. Tenth inning: no runs. Eleventh inning, scoreless. Twelfth inning a liner from Muddy Ruel's bat screamed into left field...
...beginning of the college year, in the opinion of all those whose temporary business is collecting money, marks an open season on the wallets of new and returning undergraduates. One is stopped on street corners with frantic appeals to subscribe to this and that periodical. Upperclassmen are halted by young and inexperienced canvassers and besought to lend financial support to institutions of which they themselves are officers. Elderly and nervous professors retire quivering within doors to turn out another chapter of The Great American Textbook. Even the President and Fellows take their walks abroad with their coats but toned...
...civilians everywhere (even in Paris 250 men registered for service), the captains of industry rallied around their desks for the national defense. It was a great game. In the Engineering Societies Building in Manhattan, Judge Elbert H. Gary, Chairman of the U. S. Steel Corporation, received a hypothetically frantic order for railway equipment...
Eight thousand pitiless brewery workers went on strike in Berlin whose populace became exposed to a beer famine. Frantic efforts were made by cafe, restaurant and beer hall proprietors to secure large quantities of Miinchner and Wurzburger from Bavaria and elsewhere to tide their beer-drinkers over tha crisis...
Meanwhile, the rest of the nine was finding its path a rocky one. Several games that should have been won were lost despite Coach Davidson's frantic juggling of the line-up. Then Howard and Ullman because eligible and were put in at shortstop and second base, Captain Zarakov moving over to third. Later Tobin moved from catcher to first base and Duchin went behind the plate, strengthening both positions. Durant and then de Becker, also removed from probation, bolstered the shaky outfield, and Coach Davidson had a team...