Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual exhibitions of bewildering curves. His amazingly fast delivery was steadier than ever, and most effective in the corner-cutting outshoots, which start from a good distance to the side of the pitcher's box and fade away over the left quarter of the home plate...
...Fish Room, where the outstanding renovations have been made, the exhibits have been placed in plate-glass show cases and relabelled according to scientific classifications. The display, as it now stands, is perhaps the finest exhibit of dried fish skins in America...
...Bradford, England, so sure was bookmaker Harry Ball that a horse named Gold Meter would not win the Harewood Plate last October that he cried: "?5 a week for life to half a crown!" Snapped Frank Waite. bookmaker's clerk: "I'll take that bet!" Gold Meter won. Last week Tattersall's committee settled the ensuing dispute by awarding Clerk Waite ?5 a week for one year (about $966), or odds of 2.080 to 1. An insurance company quoted the life annuity at ?4.873 (about $17,942), or odds...
...members of the Harvard team, with the exceptions of McCaffrey and Jantzen, took advantage of the opportunity to boost their season's averages. Mays knocked out six singles in seven trips to the plate. Lupien showed great hitting power by driving two home-runs, a double, and a single in six times at bat. Wood also was credited with a double and four one-base hits out of seven attempts. Gleason accounted for the third Crimson homer. A Harvard victory was more than assured by the first seven innings but in the eighth there was no stopping the Crimson assault...
...doubted that such a Texan ever existed. Pat Neff not only existed but became Texas' Governor (1921-25). Well-known now is the story of how. hunting with a party which included the late William Jennings Bryan, he sat down to breakfast, found a wooden decoy duck on his plate. It was explained that each was to eat what he had shot the day before. Said Governor Neff: "The report that I never fired a gun almost cost me my governorship. Now my expert marksmanship is about to rob me of my breakfast...