Word: platee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While nobody was looking last Saturday, Mort Waldstein stepped out of his familiar pitching role to lead the Eastern Intercollegiate League's at-the-plate standings. Not only does his two and one pitching score rate him fifth in the League standings, but his .550 hitting tops anything the Ivy Leaguers are approaching at present...
President Prado presented his White House hosts with a hand-hammered silver plate, an assortment of ancient Inca pottery and water jugs; for four days went to formal luncheons, dinners and receptions. Then he addressed Congress-the first Latin American President to do so-and headed for Detroit...
Going into the ninth frame, the Varsity led 4 to 3 and Sophomore Warren Berg on the mound seemed to have things under firm control. Then the Bruins, capitalizing on a dropped ball by Gerry Callanan at the plate and confusion of Brooks Heath on a long fly, went ahead to lead...
World War I moppets rallied to the defense of freedom by planting Victory Gardens and licking their platters clean. This year the Jack Spratlike platter came back. In Glencoe, Ill., Margot, 5, and John Chinnock, 7, with their father, formed the Clean Plate Club, pledged themselves always to "finish all the food on my plate and drink all of my milk, unless excused . . . until Uncle Sam has licked the Japs and Hitler. . . ." Penalty for failure: "I will turn in my button." Club records last week showed only one recalcitrant among 200 members: five-year-old Betsy Brown, who refused...
...stork's nest on a chimney, he found what the radio message from London had told him about -a model Hurricane fighter, exact down to rubber tires and glass navigation and landing lights, built for His Majesty by R.A.F. mechanics. On the fuselage was a brass plate bearing birthday greetings. On the engine cowling His Majesty's name was inscribed in Arabic...