Word: hops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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True to his word. Old Bo-Bo (who previously played with the Dodgers, Cubs, Browns, Senators, Red Sox) proceeded to give the Yankees a dose of his pitching poison: a fast ball with plenty of hop, a baffling curve, a lazy looper. In 16 games this season, he and his teammates drubbed the World Champions twelve times. Last week, in their three-game series, they pounded them for 24 runs, 41 hits...
...invasion from every side. England, separated by less than 75 miles of water, was more uneasy about the Irish than at any time since 1938, when, over Churchill's violent protest, Neville Chamberlain had voluntarily evacuated the British naval bases in Eire. From Brittany German planes could hop to the centre of Eire without crossing English territory. The I. R. A., a well-organized and experienced fifth column, was responding to Nazi agitation, accepting German equipment and funds. The aggressive German Minister, Dr. Eduard Hempel, was doing a good job in Dublin with a Legation staff said to include...
When young Homer Martin was studying for the Baptist ministry at William Jewell College in Missouri, he was national hop, step & jump champion. From an industrial pastorate he hopped into the Labor movement. He stepped into national prominence as the first democratically elected head of the new United Automobile Workers, jumped to the front pages as leader of the 1937 sit-down strikes in Detroit and Flint...
Fear of Arms. At the same time that Sweden's strategic problem thus grew acute, her military problems multiplied. Today Germans were in Copenhagen, a short ferry hop to the Swedish mainland...
Bethel Merriday is a distinctly better book, and its comparative goodness may be instructive to historians of Sinclair Lewis' career. With a talent that has more hop on the ball than nine or ten ordinary writers, Lewis wrote his memorable novels not when he had a "good idea" but when parts of the U. S. social scene stirred him to sardonic, passionate-and first-hand-study. Arrowsmith is a classic example, and it is with Arrowsmith that Bethel Merriday may be fairly compared...