Word: plate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...major arguments in favor of the step are two. Many familiar with the sight of a first-class pitcher who has allowed three hits in seven innings being removed from the line-up to allow a strong hitter to toe the plate. Mr. Heydler's plan would allow the pinch-hitter and keep the pitcher in the game. Besides the elimination of this handicap to a team, Mr. Heydler points out that his plan would speed up ball games by doing away with the annoying delays of getting a pitcher ready to hit, and getting him a sweater when...
...pitchers wouldn't like the scheme. Even if they hit only once in six trips to the plate they have a human desire to crack something. They want to get back at the other pitcher for all the hits that have whistled past their ears. Although the proposal does not prevent the pitchers from taking their turns, the chances are that managers would discover some player short on brains and fielding prowess, but able to hit them far and frequently, who would stay on the roster as a hitter and nothing else, to the exclusion of the pitcher from...
...library are 60,000 books and pamphlets, and the number increases yearly. Building C, adjacent to the main Observatory building, contains the famous photographic collection of some 350,000 glass plates--a collection probably ten times as large as the next in size. The photographs were made partly at the Cambridge station, and partly at the various southern stations maintained by the Harvard Observatory during the past 45 years. All of these plates are in current use in the study of the motions, magnitudes, and variations of the stars and other celestial objects; they are studied not only...
...aided by an ineffectual young American (who supplies the only comic relief by frequent, skillful references to Baker, Oregon, "a place in America," where he has two sisters, Hetty and Jane, "good girls"). Apprehended, the Englishman is bound by the wrists, his back is used as an etching-plate, upon which Mr. Crispin cuts with a surgical scalpel the likeness of an ass. The American is subjected to mental torture. But just as Mr. Crispin, drawing on a surgeon's blouse, is about to consummate his fiendish plans for the Englishman, the American and the girl, the three dumb...
...presentation done, Dr. Ives explained to the physicists present a new camera invented by Dr. Clarence Whitney Kanolt of the U. S. Bureau of Mines. It makes pictures seem lifelike. In front of the photographic plate is a glass grating of alternate vertical light and dark lines. In photographing, the camera so moves before the subject that its centre is always on a line with the centre of the camera lens and plate. The finished picture is striped. Some of the stripes show the person or thing from one angle, others from other angles. When a second glass grating...