Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mitch has got to find some one to occupy the mound. In his search for pitching talent he has tried taking Braman Gibbs from right field and sending him out to serve 'em up. In the meantime, Paul deGive, Varsity hurler in 1933, has even been seen behind the plate. Of all the remarkable transferences for which Mitchell is famous, this combination sets an all-time record--especially if either of these men appears in his new role and does something...
...only old records that fell were in the 440 where Captain Jack Morse ran out the old distance to establish a new G.B.I. quarter-mile mark of 49 2-5 seconds, and in the Varsity discus where Johnny Healey skimmed the plate 156 feet, 6 3-4 inches, shattering G.B.I. and Harvard records, both formerly held by his teammate, Johnny Dean...
Junior Roosevelt did not strike Cameraman Corvelli. He tackled and bore him to the floor. What he wanted was the camera, upon which he stomped savagely, but without damage to the prize plate in Corvelli's pocket...
...along the sidewalks. He was alone running down Commonwealth Avenue. He turned into Exeter Street as lightly as though he were trotting to catch a street car, whisked across the finish where he was timed at 2 hr., 32 min., 53 sec. He was sitting down to a plate of beef stew in the Boston A. A. clubhouse when the other runners arrived...
...long as the world bought Zion candy bars, Zion cookies. Zion lace, Zion books and Zion cement it could smile as it would at Wilbur Glenn Voliva's dire prophecies and belief that the earth is soup-plate shaped. But it could not dispute the grim, lap-jowled prophet's absolute mastery of his own tight sectarian world of Zion City, Ill., on the lake shore 40 mi. north of Chicago. Owner of its communal industries and General Overseer of its Christian Catholic Church, Prophet Voliva banned tobacco, liquor, cinemas, profanity, immodest dress and chewing gum from...