Word: platee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Early in the spring of the year 1516 Juan Diaz de Lolis entered the great estuary on the east coast of South America, now known as the River Plate, Sent out by the governor of Castilla del Oro to search for a strait connecting the Atlantic with the newly discovered Pacific, de Lolis ascended the bay then known as the Mar Dulce as far as the mouth of the Parana River whore in 1516 he was killed by Indians...
...Cardinals, came up to bat, pushed back his cap, was cheered for two and a half minutes. The first and most exciting inning of the game ended with one run for each team. Thereafter Pitchers Pennock and Sherdel twisted their slow left handers over the corners of the plate, hot-dog venders dragged themselves along the aisles. In the sixth inning Baseman Gehrig drove home Fielder Ruth for a winning run. Score: New York, 2; St. Louis...
Fifth Game. Once more Pennock, as deliberate as a garbageman stood against Sherdel, vehement, in baggy trousers. For five innings Sherdel, famed for his delayed ball, pitched perfectly; his slow curves wound whitely up to the plate and winked out of sight into Catcher O'Farrell's glove while Yankee batsmen swore and pirouetted. But in the ninth inning Pinch Hitter Paschal smashed a single to centre scoring Gehrig, tying the score, 2 to 2. An extra inning gave the Yankees victory. Score: New York. 3; St. Louis...
...bleachers and Ruth jogged around the bases pouting because he was all alone. Then Koenig fumbled, Meusel muffed, and the Cardinals scored thrice. In the sixth, New York squeaked in its second run and in the seventh filled the bases with two out. As swart Lazzeri dawdled to the plate, the Cardinals huddled around Pitcher Haines. In the stands an angry growl rose to pandemonium. Manager Hornsby came out of the huddle and shouted towards the distant "bull pen" (where pitchers practice). No one appeared. Fielder Hafey spun on his heel to carry the message, when a lumbering, red-sweatered...
...Five or six young boys had gathered around my car when I stopped," related Mr. Croneis to a CRIMSON reporter last night, "and were attempting to spell out my Massachusetts license plate...