Word: platee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month, Reynolds decided to break Howard Hughes's round-the-world record of 91 hours, 14 minutes. He bought an A26 Douglas attack bomber, removed some 8,000 Ibs. of armor plate, crammed the plane full of gas tanks. He hired William P. Odom, a wartime transatlantic ferry pilot and China "Hump" flyer, to fly trie plane, and T. Carroll Sallee as engineer. Reynolds himself, who holds a private pilot's license, was "navigator," a euphemistic way of spelling passenger...
...outfield is especially potent at the plate. Bill Arrison, Frank McArthur and Ed Merdos are all longball hitters, and the rest of the lineup contains other elements of offensive strength. If Coach Mose Quinn could find an effective pitcher, his team might surprise somebody...
Aside from the mound problem no lineup problems are bothering Samborski. He expects to use Walt Coulson, John Caulfield and Len Lunder in the outfield Bill Fitz, Captain Jack Forte, Saul Mariaschin, and John Coppinger in the infield and Bill Hamlen behind the plate...
...city planning are part and parcel of the same problem: bettering the physical environment and thus the well-being of Man. This is his point of departure from Wright, for whom he has the greatest admiration. Although a rebel to the core, past master of the concrete-pipe-and-plate-glass school, Wright nonetheless remains an individualist devoted solely to personal artistic triumph. The greatest glory for Gropius must always be the ideal of an organically-planned community, free from slums, smoke, and congestion and their atendant social ills. Near his residence in Lincoln (a severe-lined affair...
Shaky pitching aided the tasks of batters in the softball contests, with almost as many runs forced across the plate on walks as were batted in. It was only a case of which team could last the longest, and Adams and Kirkland had the most endurance...