Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sept. 28) is most unTIMEworthy. It savors of the they-kept-the-pig-in-the-parlor ditties. It is no more probable that hurly started in a clubbed dispute over a potato than it is that tennis began in a courtier's attempt to ward off with a plate a hot dog bandied at him by an irate Louis the Whosis. Elsewhere you state that hurly is at least a thousand years old and the potato was not known in Europe until the 16th century. If you must link the potato with something you might...
...Paul Derringer, rattled as he had been in the first game, walked Dykes. Williams singled. Grove struck out but Derringer walked Bishop, filling the bases. When the count against Philadelphia's Centrefielder George ("Mule") Haas was three balls and two strikes, Derringer delivered a pitch that crossed the plate close to Haas's knees. Umpire Richard Nallin called it a ball. After a long protest, in which Pitcher Derringer later declared Umpire Nallin had admitted making a mistake, the game was resumed. Cochrane singled, scoring one run, and Pitcher Derringer then walked Simmons, forcing in another. He was replaced...
...research laboratories and had stopped at George Eastman's kodak plant for Dr. Charles Edward Kenneth Mees to take their pictures in the dark. The room they posed in was flooded with infra-red light from an airtight, light-tight cabinet. A camera was loaded with a proper plate. The camera clicked a one-second exposure. The lights went on. While the businessmen blinked their eyes and chatted, photographers developed the plate, made prints. Fifteen minutes later the businessmen could see themselves as no man had ever seen them, the way they looked in the dark. Practical uses...
Greatest hindrance to the plan was known to be Pennsylvania's request for trackage rights over the Nickel Plate along Lake Erie. Although this is a C. & O. road New York Central was unwilling to grant such a privilege to its powerful rival. In the plan filed with the Commission last week no mention was made of this embarrassing point and opinion was that it had been tacitly ignored for the moment by Pennsylvania in return for silence on New York Central's part on other points...
...squashed comfortably down on a plank. The whole picture epitomizes some of the arts and industries of the U.S. Upon a great scaffolding several artisans are at work besides Diego Rivera, who is painting a huge central figure, symbolical of them all. Rivera holds in one hand a tin plate for a palette, in the other a brush. The scaffolding ingeniously subdivides the space into six panels...