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Word: hitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cause which Editor-Publisher George B. Lay hit upon seemed germane to the whole state of South Carolina. It derived from a lady living near the centre of the state on Lang Syne Plantation, 40 miles from Columbia. She, Mrs. Julia Peterkin, began acquiring national distinction as an authoress five years ago when she published Green Thursday, followed in 1927 by Black April. All her major characters are South Carolina Negroes, drawn as she has known them all her life on a South Carolina plantation. Not everything that plantation Negroes do is charming or even pleasant to contemplate. But nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scarlet in South Carolina | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...this time the visitors were leading by six runs and Hurwitz appeared to have the game well in hand. He had fanned eight men and allowed but one hit and to most everyone it looked like merely a question of how many runs the Rhode Islanders would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STRONG FINISH IN CLOSING FRAMES GIVES CRIMSON WIN | 6/6/1929 | See Source »

...Nugent '30 led off the Crimson half of the sixth with a ringing single to left, the first solid hit off Hurwitz. E. H. McGrath '31 followed with a base on balls and Harvard had its first real scoring opportunity. B. H. Ticknor '31 fanned, but Captain G. E. Donaghy '29 came through with a smack to right which scored Nugent and put McGrath on third. Coach Mitchell here inserted S. L. Batchelder '31 in place of J. A. Prior '29 who was having an off day with the willow, and the former grounded out to second base, McGrath counting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STRONG FINISH IN CLOSING FRAMES GIVES CRIMSON WIN | 6/6/1929 | See Source »

Three-base hits Pykosz. Two-base bits McGrath, Denaghy. Stolen bases Tickitor, Kearns, Trumbull. Sacrifice hits Dudley, Lazerek, Left on bases Harvard 7, Rhode Island Double play Donaghy to Nugent. Bits off Molloy 7 in 4 1-8 innings, off Whitmore 1 in 4 8-4 innings. Hit by pitched ball Molloy (Trumbull) Hurwitz (Gilligan). Struck out by Hurwitz 10, by Whitmore 4 by Molloy 1. Rase on balls off Hurwitz 6, off Molloy 2, off Whitmore 2, Winning pitcher Whitmore. Umpires McLaughlin and Kelleher Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STRONG FINISH IN CLOSING FRAMES GIVES CRIMSON WIN | 6/6/1929 | See Source »

...just walked about in front of the stands, looking the crowd over a hit. There aren't as many Vermont Eds and Coos as we'd like to find supporting the team, cheering for it, wholeheartedly interested...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 6/5/1929 | See Source »

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