Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...freight train. He was not pretty to look at either, being a somewhat scarred ex-taxi-driver with a thick nose, thick jaw, thick mouth and a pair of cold, slow, brutal eyes. He seemed a fighter without imagination, he ever comes up against a fast man who can hit, he'll be done for," critics said...
Paul Berlenbach showed that he was not afraid to fight. He fought boxers and took what they had to give and tired them out; he boxed fighters and hit harder than they did. In December he beat young Jack Delaney, a French-Canadian who could both dance and hit. Critics began to think better of Paul Berlenbach...
...papers have been prodigal in reporting her recent doings-how she won many tinkling little Riviera tournaments and lost to Suzanne Lenglen and got appendicitis. She made no apologies for that match at Cannes. Mlle. Lenglen beat her because she is, still, a better match player. They hit the ball about equally hard; Miss Wills is somewhat the better stylist; Mlle. Lenglen is faster on her feet. But when they played at Cannes the sunburned gentlemen at the courtside were betting two-to-one against Miss Wills, and the odds, at their next encounter, will probably be the same. Odds...
...outstanding feature of the first half of the current season has been the home run hitting of Outfielder Ruth of the New York Yankees. Damned in neo-season days as "a fat slob, good for nothing," Babe Ruth has thrice slapped the cheeks of his criticizers by not only ascending to within four homeruns of his 1921 world's record (when he hit 30 homeruns by the Fourth of July) but by leading the American League in total number of runs scored and (greatest of all) by maintaining the highest batting average in the League. However, it now appears...
Lightning had hit the U. S. Arsenal at Lake Denmark, Government officials believe. The number of casualties was miraculously small, according to army officers. Most of the men injured were knocked down by the concussion of the explosions as the fragments of the fusillade hurtled over their heads...