Word: platee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plate, the Varsity skidded to fourth in the League standings with an average of .237. Cornell, with an astronomical .280, won the team batting championship...
Bill Barron, who played the outfield for the Samborski flock, and Bill Fitz, Crimson first-sacker, earned the dubious distinction of finishing second and third, respectively, in number of times struck out. Barron fanned 11 times in 30 trips to the plate, Fitz 10 in 37. The League leader in this department whiffed 13 times. HARVARD BATTING ab r h rbl tb avg. Coulson, of 41 6 15 8 24 .366 Fitz, 1b 37 10 9 4 14 .243 Forte, 2b 40 3 9 6 9 .225 Hamlen, c 40 4 9 3 9 .225 Barron...
British-born Poet W. H. Auden, in a little prose flourish for Town & Country, admonished U.S. poets "to take topophilia [love of places] seriously. . . . Had I the talent . . . what lovely poems would I be writing now about Schrafft's Blue Plate Special, Stouffer's tea shop, the Brighton Beach line, the General Theological Seminary on Ninth Avenue at 21st Street...
...white & blue Townsend hats and Townsend ribbons, scattered to see the city. They called on their Congressmen and visited with one another. Rollie Walters, 97-year-old Civil War veteran, who wore his uniform, bore tomahawk scars, and once worked in a false-tooth factory, hauled out his lower plate to show the folks. "Made these myself," he said...
Paced by Bucky Harrison both on the mound and at the plate, the Kirkland-Leverett Deacons opened the summer intramural baseball season yesterday by shutting out a disorganized Eliot nine 4 to 0. The losers will have a chance to avoid the cellar position in the three team league, however, when they meet the Adams-Dunster combination tomorrow...