Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Page on the mound kept the Wildcat batters from connecting disastrously, either passing the players absolutely, or forcing them to hit weakly into the infield or to pole easy pop flies to the outfield. While at times the Crimson hurler seemed distinctly without control, throwing wide of the plate and alternately forcing the batters to duck hastily, each time he seemed about to load the bases for New Hampshire via the base on balls route the visitors failed to make any timely bingles, allowing Page to retire the side on easy outs without scoring...
...Beau Pere, King George of England's brown 3-year old by Son-in-Law out of Cinna: the Swaffham Plate at Newmarket, with Synot a nose behind...
...theory of the cup as the Grail is further suggested by such symbols as vines, the Star of Bethlehem, the plate of loaves and fish. There is much evidence to show that the Chalice could not date later than the ist Century. That date has been challenged by some experts, including Professor Charles Rufus Morey of Princeton, but is supported by Professors Arthur Bernard Cook of Cambridge and Josef Strzygowski of Vienna. If they are correct, then Kouchakji's Chalice may indeed be Galahad's Grail, the true cup of Jesus. For history records no other important Christian...
...Hill's $2,000,000 bonus (TIME, March 23). When balloting time came Dissenter Rog ers saw his candidate for the directorate receive a paltry 11,980 votes out of 2,627,953. Angry, he spoke of carrying on his uphill anti-Hill fight in the courts. Emptier Plates. From a sales volume of $25,000 when it was founded in 1904, McBride Studios, Inc. of Manhattan, grew until last year it did almost a half-million dollars' gross - one of the largest companies of its kind in the world. Its busi ness: altars, communion railings, statuary...
...gloomy vault was pried the ancient coffin. A copper plate, incorruptible, identified the moldering sarcophagus. The skeleton was complete. Yellowed parchments supplied the final proof. They were forwarded, by the Right Reverend Peter E. Amigo, Bishop of Southwark, who was present at the disinterment, to Vatican City...