Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good diplomatist must be a pinch-hitter. Pinch-hitting was what President Hoover wanted of Assistant Secretary of State William Richards Castle Jr. when he sent him to bat last week as U. S. Ambassador to Japan. Mr. Castle was expected to make one hit and get back to home-plate as fast as possible. His appointment to Tokyo was only for the duration of the five-power naval conference in London. Before his departure, he will confer this week with the Japanese parley delegates passing through...
...gymnasium to Athens. Since its founding in 1846 as a medical school, it has been "an institution of learning where boys and girls who could not leave their homes could pursue their higher studies." Its first chancellor, Millard Fillmore. left after two years to be Vice President (and pinch-hitting President) of the U. S. Twelve years after his death (1874). a School of Pharmacy was added to the college. Later a Law School (1887). Dental School (1892), School of Arts & Sciences (1913) were grafted on, scattered in dirty-faced downtown buildings. After the endowment drive...
...Billy Bull called Owen 'the greatest of all Harvard backs, Mahan included.' George had no equal when it came to grim resolution, the will to win. Owen was the gridiron's pinch hitter, almost invariably rising to occasions...
...Dorrance & Co. (Philadelphia), who issued The Economic Pinch (1923), by Congressman Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...made her reputation in Europe with this role, sang it in Manhattan 19 years ago at the U. S. premiére given at the Metropolitan Opera. Then her voice was so big and deep that she could even sing baritone airs, had done so once in Russia, as pinch-hitter for the hero in Rubinstein's Demon. Last week her countess was again a fearsome, palsied old hag in shawls; the voice, though thinner, still sure; and her presence the most compelling on the stage...