Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dodger bench, Eddie Miksis spread consternation among his superstitious teammates by blurting out the unmentionable: "Hey, they haven't got any hits." Out there on the mound, Rex Barney did not need to be told ("I always know when a guy comes up there what he's done the last time ... I remember the ones that have hit me, and there were none to remember...
...Belgians have also called attention to the fact that the Batutsi are probably the world's greatest high jumpers, regularly clearing 8 ft. 5 in. from a takeoff mound a foot high, making a net jump of 7 ft. 5 in. (this year's Olympic winner jumped 6 ft. 6 in.-see SPORT...
...result of her labors, TIME'S morgue is now the repository for a mound of such neat notations as this one: "12,000 city street cleaners daily sweep up, pick up and otherwise put out of sight about 5,000 cubic yards of stuff ranging from dead cats to a load of TNT, and including wallets, personal mail, laundry bundles and an occasional keg of beer, as well as the more routine paper and just plain dirt (an average 112 tons of soot cover a square mile of the city each month...
Dizzy Dean was credited with saying that on the pitcher's mound he couldn't tell the difference between jeers and cheers. They both sounded good. Perhaps authors feel the same way about having their books reviewed in TIME...
...Huntington and Cliff Crosby in--and one in the fifth (incurred when Chip Gannon ran all the way from second on a long Coulson blast to right field) looked like enough until the seventh inning. Then Godin gave out, and Roche came in to try his luck on the mound. Princeton proceeded to score three runs, but Roche remained in the lineup in the ninth just long enough to drive the clinching runs across...