Word: platee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman outfit. For the catcher's berth Henry Chauncey '28 and E. J. Steptoe '29 are expected to stage a close race. Chauncey caught for the University team last year and Steptoe was a pitcher on the first year nine. He is to be given a chance behind the plate because of his batting ability and certain features of his playing which point him out as a potential catcher...
...type. The mirror faces the star and, as it is concave, or dish-shaped, the light rays converge after being reflected from it. They are reflected to the side of the instrument by a second, flat mirror, in one type, and are brought to a focus on a photograph plate, or in an eyepiece, if the telescope is being used visually...
...truly significant manner, came about the middle of the eighteenth century, with the burning of the college Library. He immediately gave his entire collection of books for the founding of a new library. Even today, wanderers in the stacks run upon books bearing a John Barnard book-plate...
...Leonor Fresnel Loree, ablest railroad analyst in the U. S., is apparently blocked from creating a great fifth trunk system in the East, in rivalry to the New York Central, Pennsylvania, B. & O. and proposed Nickel Plate System. He controls the Wabash (Mississippi River and Great Lakes Ports to Buffalo; it reaches the Port of New York over the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western), the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh (connecting those cities), the Delaware & Hudson (upstate New York to the St. Lawrence). The B. & O. and the New York Central own control of the Philadelphia & Reading. In this particular road Mr. Loree...
...Full name: New York, Chicago & St. Louis R. R. This is but one factor of the Van Sweringen's Nickel Plate System...