Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mound. The impressive record of the visitors, including an it does a 6 to 5 win over the Harvard Graduates may force him to use Devens: if net, he will work Sprague. The Rhode Island outfit will have Martynick, one of its four veterans, tooing the plate. This man pitched against the Crimson last year and lost by a score...
...pirates murder all the Centaur's crew but de Bernis saves Priscilla and Major Sands by pretending she is his wife, Sands her brother. De Bernis, an old associate of Tom Leach's, was on his way to tell him of a plate fleet soon to sail for Spain. To withhold Leach from treachery, he withholds all information as to whence the fleet will sail, insists that Leach careen the Black Swan on a certain island's beach and scrape her bottom clean for the fast fight to come. On the island trouble brews. Leach makes goat...
Died, Alma, Marchioness of Breadalbane, 77, widow of Gavin Campbell, seventh Earl, first Marquess of Breadalbane; at her home in Oban, Scotland. Remembered was her ownership of the million-dollar set of gold plate often loaned to the Perth Railroad Station to sharpen the appetite of Queen Victoria on stopovers between Windsor and Balmoral; her feat at 74 of stalking, shooting and killing six stags with six successive shots...
...study of the effect of stress on variously shaped solid bodies with the aid of polarized light and sensitive cameras. The distribution of stress and strain exerted on a notched object, for example, can be detected by bands of colored light which are recorded on the photographic plate in the camera. The English scientist, Coker, developed the process early in the last decade, but its practical engineering value is just beginning to be realized...
...clever base running eluded the waiting crowd on first by starting the circuit on the other side of the diamond. The press men were not to be caught napping, however, and had the play completely sized up when a lateral pass was completed, and two Lampoon men crossed the plate...