Word: hand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Godin was McInnis' mound choice, and although he issued 12 bases on balls in seven innings, some timely Crimson hitting would have saved the game. On the other hand, Godin got himself into several crucial situations where a Holy Cross blow would have cracked the game open. Ralph Hymans pitched the eighth. He was touched for two sharp blows--one a liner to Harry Cavanaugh, the other a grounder which started a double play and got Hymans safely through the inning...
...Society came into existence December 5, 1776 at William and Mary in Virginia. It introduced all the ritual and mysticism employed by contemporary fraternities--an oath of secrecy, a badge, mottoes in Greek and Latin, a code of laws, an elaborate form of initiation, a seal, and a special hand-clasp...
...Beta Kappa Key, one of the last remaining supports of the pocket watch industry, has undergone some change since 1776. Originally, it was a square silver watch-key with a hand in the lower right corner pointing to three starts in the upper left corner. This symbolized ambition...
...modern key still has the finger pointing at the stars but the hand shows from a twentieth century sleeve, the key itself is gold, and it has grown a tail on the bottom...
...that "only one seventh of the human race has ever succeeded in practicing individual liberty, and that of this fraction half live in the United States." Secondly, he added, "in this poker game our cards are up while the Kremlin's are down." "The press is continually floodlighting our hand," he said, while "underneath the card table are people like Drew Pearson--performing a very useful function...