Word: plate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fourth Best. What Robert Young had got from the Van Sweringens was: 1) the profit-fat Chesapeake & Ohio Railway; 2) through the Alleghany Corp., the controlling interest in three other roads which sprawl across the U.S. heartland-the New York, Chicago & St. Louis (Nickel Plate), the Pere Marquette, and the Wheeling and Lake Erie (see map). Last week, in Cleveland's Terminal Tower, the C & O's board of directors voted to merge all four railroads, make them one operating company...
...fifth was due entirely to Wallace's wildness. He hit two batters in a row and then heaved a wild pitch way over Herb Eckenroth's head, allowing one of the runners to score from second. The only earned run that Brown scored was pushed across the plate in the sixth...
...Swegan started the barrage by beating out a hard hit ball to deep second. Allen got hold of the ball and sent a long hit down the left field line good for two bases, the only extra-base hit of the afternoon; Roche came in to dent the plate on the hit. Wallace sent Allen to third when he got his second hit of the game, a short line drive that dropped just in front of the left fielder. Eckenroth looked at two strikes and then hit a hard ball back of second, and it looked like it was going...
...another difficulty plaguing Coach Floyd Stahl. Twenty-two miscues have been made by the Varsity; many of them coming in critical moments. The loose playing has accounted for nine of the 28 runs scored against the Crimson, and other errors would have let more opposing players cross the plate if it had not been for the tight pitching on the part of Wallace...
...with the best claim to discovery of radar's principle was the 19th Century German physicist Heinrich Hertz, who in 1887 bounced a hertzian (radio) wave off a zinc plate and caught its echo on a resonant circle of copper wire...