Word: pivot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only doubtful position is center. Hodge, who has been filling the pivot position since Stephens' injury, is at present scheduled to start against the Blue...
Stafford was in command of Team B with Chauncey, Zarakov, and Howe for carriers. In the line, Doherty, Taylor, and Hoague on one side; E. H. Bradford, Simonds, and Daniell on the other, flanked Shapiro who was in the pivot berth...
...survivors, Captain McMillan, who has been holding down the pivot berth, has been moved over to guard. Bartell, up to now an end, has been put in the center to fill the place left vacant by McMillan's shift. Bartell is not a novice at the snapper-back position, having had experience as a center on his Freshman team two years...
...Hylan cast the first ball in his city. Whereupon the Giants beat that and several other balls about and out of their Polo Grounds, until they had enervated three Senator pitchers. Manager Bucky Harris had the misfortune to drop a ball just as he was about to function as pivot man in a deft double play. Score: New York 6, Washington...
...Holy Grail appears as the pivot of the play. It turns up in the dirty East Side nest of a gang of crooks. One crook steals it from another. Unfortunately for him the smarter swindler's girl who is deeply religious learns through her priest the identity of the vessel The conflict between them, falling slightly at a rather conventional climax, provides the drama...