Word: platee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fresh in every mind was the cheering news of the Democratic comeback in Chicago (see Political Notes); the thought gave added zest to the diners as they pitched in to their $100-a-plate dinner. Over coffee and cigars, Gael Sullivan, the Democrats' national executive director, served up the main political fare. Said he: "In front of us today we have a leader-tested and triumphant. He is ... confident because of the people's confidence . . . eager to see and do the right because his, hopes have an abiding kinship with the people's hopes...
...return for a release of the Central stock, Young told ICC he would gladly place his holdings in the Nickel Plate (which competes with the Central) in a similar voting trust. If all goes well with plans for unifying the Central and the C. & O., said Young, the Nickel Plate stock would be disposed of entirely. Finally, Young asked that he, as C. & O.'s board chairman, and Robert J. Bowman, as C. & O.'s president, be permitted to accept an invitation to join Central's board of directors (TIME, March...
...walk, a hit, and an error in the first, the Freshmen put plenty of men on base, but were unable to score again until they picked up another unearned counter in the seventh. The eighth brought the final outburst, as seven Yardlings crossed the plate...
Warren Berg, the Yardling coach, has plenty of material which he terms "pretty experienced for Freshmen." His starting battery will consist of John Hansen, former all-scholastic hurler from Rindge Tech, and Cliff Crosby behind the plate, but Hansen will not go the whole way, as Berg's plans call for replacing him with three other men for two-inning stretches...
...subversive rumor was in the wind. It was noised about that one of the Houses was fielding a pair of identical twins, one of whom wields a potent wand at the plate. Opponents began considering the possibilities...