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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Springfield pushed over three tallies in both the second and third innings off starter Cook, who was having trouble keeping his curve from hanging but deserved to be unscored on in each frame. In the second, Tom Johnson walked, moved along on a sacrifice and wild pitch, then beat Cook...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Springfield Nine Trounces Varsity; Weak Defense Allows 12-2 Victory | 4/22/1959 | See Source »

A cricket field has two wickets placed 22 yards apart in the center of the playing area. The wickets consist of three "stumps" stuck into the ground with two "bails," small wooden pieces, resting over the tops of the stumps. A wicket is "lost" when a batsman lets a ball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Overwhelms Boston Club In Cricket Match at Soldiers Field | 4/21/1959 | See Source »

Tynan began writing criticism twelve years after his birth in 1927. As a scholarship student at Oxford he criticized and directed plays, edited a literary magazine, and served as secretary of the Oxford Union, "a sort of large-scale debating society." He had gone up to Oxford at the age...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Eyewitness for Posterity | 4/21/1959 | See Source »

"There is only one trend in the American theatre, and that trend is Eli Kazan.... I certainly don't know anyone whom actors venerate so much. But he seems to prefer plays concerned with extremes of pain, extremes of guilt, extremes of hysteria. Now there are a lot of awfully...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Eyewitness for Posterity | 4/21/1959 | See Source »

Defensively, the team is exceptional, and with .500 hitter Mike Drummey leading off, the Crimson has had no trouble collecting runs.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strong Yardling Nine To Meet Holy Cross, Seeks Second Victory | 4/21/1959 | See Source »

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