Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When I began to write my story I experienced difficulty in finding material that would interest them. I finally hit upon the following idea-"The old grandmother in a little American house brings a little orphan child a Rumanian doll. As soon as the child takes the gift in its arms the doll comes to life and starts to sing Rumanian songs. The child is fascinated. Then, as if by magic, the doll whisks the child away to distant Rumania...
George Herman "Babe" Ruth, failing to hit, wrote to New York for his favorite bat, Big Bertha, the heaviest bat used in the big leagues (48 ounces). Big Bertha has 31 notches in the handle, each notch for a home run. Ruth broke his bat Betsy in June when there were twelve notches...
...line drive hit John McGraw in the right ankle which swelled up. McGraw, who had a dancing date that evening, sent out for crutches, had an X-ray taken, spent a day in his room, came down to the field next day with a camp stool, a cane, a crutch, and a megaphone. Later in the hotel he called the squad round him, put them through tactical drill he calls "skull practice...
...doubled, the plant development proceeded four times as fast, and when the light was applied for 24 hours the growth was "astounding." The heat*rays of the lamps made these long exposures impractical in the past. Even filtering them through a water screen was unsuccessful, but Dr. Davis hit upon the idea of cooling the air in the chamber with an electric fan. This work so well that a 24-hour exposure can now be tolerated...
...Sharkey. So had gamblers. Risko was tough, they said, but Sharkey was tough and fancy. When the bell rang, Risko made Sharkey miss a left, landed a left to the jaw. All through the fight he hooked to the chin and made Sharkey jerk his legs up when he hit him" in the stomach. When the decision went to Risko, Sharkey struck a pose, stared disdainfully at the top balcony. "Yaah," yelled the holder of a $3 balcony seat, "you look like a nickel's worth of holy mackerel." "Honest John" Risko, shifty, awkward, hard-to-hurt...