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Word: mounds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard hasn't had a ball game and Bob Ward hasn't pitched in ten days now, but, weather permitting, both of these things will happen this afternoon. The often-washed-out Crimson, with Ward on the mound, meets M.I.T. at 3:45 p.m. today on Soldiers Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nine To Play Techmen Here | 5/16/1951 | See Source »

Tall right-hander John Semmelmeyer will start on the mound, and Captain Ron Peyton, who has a played every game this season, will be behind the plate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yard Nine Takes Trip, Meets Cushing Today | 5/16/1951 | See Source »

...sunrise, both the note and the coat-hangers had disappeared. The tombstone was taken away, leaving a mound of dirt to puzzle students. Rumors about a rampant Scottish Nationalist circulated about the Yard. No one guessed the real sentiment behind the "monument...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Original Site of Dunster's Mystery Tombstone Found | 5/15/1951 | See Source »

Several pounds of earth were formed into a mound next to the stone and many cost-hangers were put in the ground to encircle the monument. The culprits also left a note, telling where the tombstone belonged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Original Site of Dunster's Mystery Tombstone Found | 5/15/1951 | See Source »

...constitutional also-rans in the American League, were having pitcher trouble again. They struggled through nine games before discovering a pitcher, Lefthander Mel Parnell, who could finish a game he started. Then the Sox promptly lapsed back into lackluster .500 ball. The New York Yankees, always strong on the mound, won all six games in their own stadium, then made themselves at home abroad by touching off an eight-game winning streak on the road. Two good reasons for the Yankees' success: Pitchers Vic Raschi and Ed Lopat, the league's leaders with four victories apiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Off & Running | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

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