Word: plate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yankee President Larry MacPhail promptly picked McCarthy's successor: William Malcolm ("Bill") Dickey, 38, perhaps the best catcher ever to put on a big-league mitt. He was first-string backstop when McCarthy took over the Yankees in 1931, and was still behind the plate last week. Bill Dickey was a big fellow (6 ft. 3 in.) who seldom had much to say, but a nice way of saying it. His only previous experience as a manager was in the Navy: his club won six straight against the Army in 1945's Service World Series...
...claims that the Crimson baseball team lacks power at the plate were smashed in a big way last Saturday at Soldiers Field when the Stahlmen slammed out a total of 19 hits, had two explosive five run innings and completely crushed a baseball team from Brown by the score...
...French companies to prevent competition and peg prices in the world market. Said Justice: Inco had so increased its nickel shipments to Farben in 1937 that Germany had built up a stockpile of Canadian-mined nickel for the German war machine. (Nickel is used to make armor plate...
...John B. Stanchfield, a brilliant New York lawyer, was a college student away back in the '70s, he stood close to the wall of a college building exactly the same distance from the corner of the building as the distance from the pitcher's slab to home plate. With a doubting professor of physics right behind him, Stanchfield took his wind-up and pitched. As the ball reached the end of the building it disappeared around the corner...
Throughout the country more & more schools are applying what paint ads flossily call "the principles of color dynamics." According to one paint publicist, Joseph C. Thompson of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., "colored surfaces [in] flat, satin, or eggshell finishes . . . medium to light in value [will eliminate the] excessive brightness of the white, and the eye-strain and feeling of monotony induced by too dark colors...