Word: platee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western treachery has deprived Russia's greats of their rightful glory is amply illustrated by the case of V. S. Pyatov. In 1859, Pyatov tried to get a patent on his method of rolling armor plate. The czarist government submitted it to "foreign vultures" for their opinion, was informed that the invention was dangerous and impractical. A year later, the Soviet press asserted, the plate was produced by a vulture named Brown, in Sheffield, England. The list of Russian firsts which pulls Pyatov up from obscurity starts with the adding machine, anesthesia, Antarctica, atomic fission, runs...
Captain Wally Coulson was off for New London last night in his yawl "Kanige." He sailed at eight p.m. with his father and mother, delaying only long enough to pick up the Wendell bat for the year's best work at the plate...
...collision at home plate as Crosby tagged out Bob James in the first inning had caused the injury. The varsity catcher was removed to the hospital, where doctors diagnosed the injury as a broken rib and a severely punctured lung. They placed Crosby in an oxygen tent and forecast that he could not be moved from it for at least three days...
...injury came about after Yale had loaded the bases with one out in the first inning. Art Fitzgerald grounded to Ernie Mannine, who threw to the plate for one out. Crosby, attempting to complete the double play, hit Fitzgerald in the back but Walt Coulson picked up the ball and threw it back to Crosby who tagged Bob James trying to score from second after the third out. James hit Crosby hard and after his turn at bat in the second inning. Crosby was removed to New Haven hospital with a severe abdominal bruise for observation and X-rays...
Palomar's Schmidt (called the "Big S") has a 72-in. mirror and a 48-in. correcting plate. It takes 14 in.-by-14 in. pictures that cover a square of sky as wide as twelve moons placed edge to edge in a row. The 200-in. sees only half the diameter of a single moon. At that rate, it would take the 200-in. about 5,000 years to observe the whole...