Word: pick-up
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Either Ketchum or Malloy will toe the rubber against the schoolboys, Coach Davidson announced last night. Both these men worked against the University team recently and succeeded in downing the pick-up nine that Coach Mitchell sent against the Freshmen. The final score of the melee was 3 to 2, the University pitchers, Booth and Cutts, slightly out-pitching the 1929 mounds-men. Prior, the newly elected leader, it was who took it personally upon himself to humble the University representatives, and while his mates held the regulars to two tallies, Prior, with a double and a home run, chased...
...principle on which the invention rests is simple. A permanent magnet is buried in the track at a point opposite each semaphore. A pick-up coil is placed under part of the locomotive. When passing over the magnet in the roadbed, this pick-up coil receives the impulse, which in turn is communicated to the apparatus on the engine controlling the air brakes. If the signal is set at "caution" or "danger," the magnet reflects that indication and the speed of the train is automatically reduced. If the engineer does not heed this warning but allows his train to pass...
...Pick-up teams from the various classes of the College, the Law School and the Business School are practicing daily for an informal basketball tournament which will be held in Hemenway Gymnasium during the latter part of next week. The teams are being formed from among the men who ordinarily spend part of the afternoons playing basketball in the Gymnasium...
...Amory's "Lady in Gray," a sprightly story of Cosmopolitan calibre, begins with a pick-up in a Pullman. It contains a mild satire on the modern best seller, and is easy and graceful...
...next four innings the first man up each time got to first, but not until the sixth inning was another run produced. In that inning Staff hit to left and was advanced by Regnier's sacrifice that was fielded to second too late. Lanigan then missed a pick-up off Orcutt and all three runners were safe. The next man was retired on a fly to Harvey and then Giles hit to Hartford. Hartford fielded the ball to Currier and caught Staff at the plate. Currier made a rash attempt to catch Giles at first for a double play...