Word: pellet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus physicians may now administer ultraviolet rays in units the way they give other medicines by pellet, teaspoon, dropper. It remains for physicians to evolve a dosage scale in terms measurable by the Rentschler meter...
...Blue leader, Garvey, and his mates. Ticknor and Donaghy singled in succession placing a man on first and second. Bassett then dumped one down to third and Aldrich in fielding it collided with Ticknor and lost the ball. Ticknor continued in as the Blue third baseman chased the pellet into left field. Yale's claim of interference was disallowed, and the run counted...
...glance at the quotation board, last week, showed that "The City" expects to see the Conservatives and Laborites matched against each other as two nearly equal Goliaths-with Liberalism's small David Lloyd George twirling between them in his slingshot the dangerous pellet called "balance of power." By allying himself with either Goliath, smart Little David would lay the other low; and although he can scarcely hope to hold the Prime Ministry himself, he could keep the unfortunate incumbent of that office on the hooks...
There were two out in the last half of the third inning at Fitton Field, Worcester, Saturday afternoon when F. E. Nugent '30 fielded an easy grounder from the bat of Captain Frank Savage of Holy Cross and tossed the pellet 15 feet in the air over first base. And although no one noticed it then, the soaring horsehide carried the ball game with...
When Purple batsmen are projecting the notorious horsehide through the ozone and depositing it in the wide open spaces which are uninhabitated by hostile fielders, while the Purple mounds-man is catapulting the pellet by the opposing club-wielders, it is not difficult to recline on the seats with one eye on the field and the other on the further section of the grandstand and retain one's composure or peace of mind. But it is extremely difficult to retain the aforesaid state when the enemy is desecrating the final station with foreign spikes while the local representatives...