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Word: plateful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...day—was able to advance to second base on an overthrow. After sophomore Ellen Macadam grounded out to shortstop, power-hitting freshman Whitney Shaw—the team’s leader in batting average, home runs and runs batted in—stepped to the plate, representing the game’s tying run. It appeared that Shaw would take first base on a hit-by-pitch, but the umpire ruled that Shaw did not attempt to avoid the pitch. Shaw flew out to left field to end the game.“We are obviously pretty...

Author: By Zachary H. Richner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Swept by Bulldogs in Sunday Twinbill | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

...Field, and Crimson coach Joe Walsh knew that the team might have take a different approach to manufacturing runs in the second half of the twinbill. So in the thirty minutes between the two games, Walsh talked to his team about being more aggressive—both at the plate and on the basepaths.Harvard (8-21, 6-4 Ivy) did just that, stealing six bases en route to winning the second game by the same score it had lost the first, and salvaging a split against the rival Bulldogs (10-14, 5-5).“We did talk about...

Author: By Jay M. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard, Yale Split Pair of Pitchers’ Duels | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

...question that has defied a straight answer since the Folgate Silver Plate Company of England manufactured this strange creature in the late 1800s: Is the spork a spoon...

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: Spork That Over | 4/11/2009 | See Source »

...Crimson plans to make a run at the Ivy Championship, it’s going to have to step up its offensive production and find a little bit more consistency at the plate...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: TO SAY THE LEIST: Historic Season in the Making for Brown | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...know that factory chicken farms—they keep the chickens calm by making them wear red contact lenses?” I muttered, pushing my salad around the plate. Here I was, face to face with an eminent professor of the English language, and I found myself missing Gchat. Gchat would give me time to Google his reference to some Florentine poet I’d never heard of. It would even allow me to take a break from talking to watch “David after Dentist.” But, now, trapped in the actual world where...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: We Need to Talk | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

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