Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rangy Negro shortstop set to work one day last week against the Philadelphia Phillies. The score was 2-2 in the sixth as Ernie Banks. 27. stepped into the batter's box. He stared stoically while the Phillies' Lefthander Curt Simmons wound up. then whipped around his light (31 oz.) bat like a willow switch. Rising steadily, the ball whistled out of Chicago's Wrigley Field to ricochet crazily through the neighborhood beyond. And the cumbersome Cubs were finally on their way to winning a ball game...
Baseball Bribe. With his light bat Banks hit 44 homers in 1955 to break the record of 39 set for shortstops in 1949 by husky Vern Stephens of the Boston Red Sox. Banks hit 28 in 1956 and 43 last year, despite a habit of swinging wildly at low outside pitches. "I'm just swinging at strikes now," says Banks. "I just try to meet the ball and get a base hit." Adds Manager Scheffing: "When he's getting his hits, he's getting his homers...
...face their classes with lab books still only half written, texts still partly mimeographed, experiments still to be polished or replaced by completely new demonstrations (the University of Minnesota's summer institute came up with two methods of studying wave motion, one with a Land camera and stroboscopic light, the other with magnetic tape). By fall of 1959, when the M.I.T. committee and the National Science Foundation hope to have trained 750 more teachers, the revolution in physics teaching will be accepted matter-of-factly by some 50,000 high school students. But the chain-reaction's shock...
...toward higher-priced, quality products fitted to compete with the world's best. They argue that Japan actually damages its potential U.S. markets with cheap, often shoddy goods copycatted from U.S. or other foreign manufacturers. To U.S. consumers, the label "Made in Japan" frequently acts as a red light that warns of inferior goods. Now Japan wants to turn the light green...
...Light Programme music of the B.B.C...