Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concrete proof that this year's baseball team is wielding the hickory with better effect than last was obtained yesterday afternoon when the compiled batting averages for 15 games showed the team to be hitting for .297 as compared to .264, the mark achieved by the 1930 nine at mid-season...
...experiences of many a small boy (like himself) whose weekly chore before the electric-blower era was to sweat and grunt over the pumphandle in the organ loft. Theirs was the duty, indispensable to organist and choir, of keeping a crude pressure-gauge above the danger mark. On rare occasions, dreadfully unforgettable, the pumper might lag from exhaustion "and wreck a full throated anthem or a shrill soprano solo in the agonized screeches of the high pipes and the guttural grunts of the low ones as the wind suddenly expired." Least penalty for such dereliction: dismissal in disgrace. Reward...
Obviously Great Britain, which expended about $11,000,000 on dirigible practice to scarce advantage, intends to mark time and watch what results befall the U. S. and Germany in their elaborate developments. The U. S. Navy has unofficially invited Britain to send officers and men to Lakehurst for training...
...Mark Twain seen the 20,000 people who milled about last week in the little town of Angels Camp, Calaveras County, Calif, he would have been astounded. Yet they were there because he once wrote a story called "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,'' which told how Jim Smiley's frog Dan'l Webster was defeated at Angels Camp when the opposition loaded it with buckshot. In 1926 Angels Campers, grateful for their town's only fame, instituted an annual International Championship Standing Broad Jump for Frogs to honor Mark Twain and to have...
Rowe is definitely out of the broad jump, and only Saturday will show whether Watkins will toe the mark when the gun is fired for the century sprint, Farrell stated last night. Rowe leaves the broad-jumping department in the care of Sutermeister, whose 23-foot surprise effort against Dartmouth compares favorably with the 22 ft., 11 in. credited to the more experienced Moore...