Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Contrast this with American police methods. M. Daudet would most certainly have been sworn at; he might very readily have been hit over the head. It is even possible that he would have had to pay his call to the Prefect in a patrol wagon. Had he waited to angle his silk hat properly, it is even conceivable that he would have been hit with a pistol butt. Third degree methods might have been applied should M. Daudet have continued his propaganda at the station in favor of a monarchy. Most certainly his siege would have been enlivened with tear...
...month flood of the Mississippi River is 114. Last week in Kentucky and Tennessee scores of mountain streams, creeks hardly with names, took probably as many lives in the space of a few days. Flooded by an eleven-hour cloudburst they swept away bridges, houses and villages. Hardest hit was Perry County, Ky., with some 30 dead. The estimated death list has passed 100, with reports from isolated mountain districts expected materially to increase this total. Said Sheriff William Cornett of Perry County: "This is undoubtedly the worst catastrophe that Kentucky has ever known...
...base hits, Deutsch, Thomas, Cole. Three base hits, Chauncey, Donaghy. Stolen bases, Donaghy, Zarakov, Lord. Bases on balls, off Barbee 1, off Sanford 5. Sacrifice hits, Armstrong 2, Burns. Struck out, by Barbee 7, by Sanford 7. Hit by pitched ball, by Sanford (Ullman). Left on bases, Pennsylvania 3, Harvard 7, Wild pitches, Barbee, Sanford. Umpires, Baltzel and Warner. Time of game, 2 hours, 38 minutes...
...plate, Connell executed the Squeeze play, and beat Barbee's throw to the plate, but Umpire Baltzel ruled that Cole was not in his box and Connell, therefore, had to go back to third. Connell came running in again on the next pitched ball, but this time Cole hit a foul tip that was just wide enough to escape Chauncey's ready glove. On the next ball, however, Connell's mighty efforts to reach home proved successful due to Barbee's wild pitch. Cole and Sanford then struck...
Donaghy, Crimson shortstop, hit the second ball pitched to deep center for a triple. Captain Tremper of Pennsylvania was over in right field and he just failed to reach the hit...