Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fred L. Whipple, instructor in Astronomy, has discovered a new comet and with the help of an assistant has computed its orbit, it was announced at the Observatory yesterday. The comet was discovered by accident on a photographic plate taken with the 16 inch refracting telescope at the Oak Ridge observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts...
...Social Justice in Plate," Professor Perry, Emerson...
...field fence. It was foul by a few feet. He whacked a liner over first base but it streaked smack into Giant-Manager Bill Terry's glove. The tension thus lifted returned redoubled in the ninth. The Senators filled the bases. A sacrifice pushed one runner across the plate. One square hit could tie up the game. But Hubbell pulled himself together. He fanned Bluege, his tenth strikeout of the game; and the next man, Sewell, grounded out. New York 4, Washington...
...graduate of St. Lawrence University, had allowed only one hit in five innings. The Giants had knocked only two singles from Washington's veteran righthander, "General" Crowder. Then the Senators went to bat in the sixth. They did everything toward scoring more runs-except to reach the home plate. Goslin singled, Manush was walked, and both men gained bases when Schumacher pitched a wild one. Schulte knocked a hard grounder to third base and Goslin was run down on his way home. Schumacher walked another man, filling the bases again. Then Schumacher, a youngster in his first regular season...
...second half of that inning was a half-hour uproar. Critz was on first with one out when Bill Terry lashed a two-bagger into left field, putting Critz on third. Crowder prudently gave Ott a base on balls, to the noisy disgust of the bleachers. Then to the plate shambled a tall, stooped figure-"Lefty" O'Doul. An oldtime hero of the Pacific Coast League, in 1932 O'Doul was No. i batsman of the National League, but a 1933 slump had put him on the bench, to be brought forth only in a pinch like this...