Word: mounded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wonder, Manager Del Baker started Floyd Giebell, a right-handed rookie brought up from Buffalo only ten days before. A gawky stringbean who had lost more games this season than he had won, Rookie Giebell looked like a sacrificial lamb as he ambled out to the mound. But no lamb was Giebell that day. With cunning change of pace and the control of an oldtimer, the green-as-grass rookie shut out the Indians...
While digging into the wars of long-dead peoples, it is annoying to archeologists to be bothered by the wars of the living. The University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute has an expedition now at work in Tell Fakhariyeh in northern Syria, a great mound (tell means mound) which they suppose to be the site of a city that nourished 1,500 years B. c., and which later was a walled Roman camp. With World War II continually threatening the eastern Mediterranean, the diggers...
...getting visas to reach the site. After they got there they were officially advised to go home. When they decided to stay and cabled Chicago for funds, officials shrugged, obligingly transmitted the cable without further ado. In the message they also dolefully revealed that at the top of the mound, which they had to cut through, were the remains of some 70.000 human bodies, apparently buried there after fighting or massacres in World...
Richardson the mound for lampy, while W. R. Zwonkas Sisson the Bench. Meanwhile that Pollak with a Bowle knife will Cutler throat of E. P. Zwonkas Jester see the Crimson over all (blood of course...
Harrison, one of the league's best pitchers and an outfielder when he is not on the mound, has been at bat 30 times and has 12 blows, all singles. He will undoubtedly see action in his team's remaining games, against Princeton, Dartmouth and Harvard twice. One other player may still be in the race: Princeton's Brooks Jones, who has an average of 426 in eight games. But with one more game to play Jones his not had 30 at bats, a requisite of the race...