Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their poor pitching. Individual instances are Young Melvin Ott (not yet 21) of the "Giants" and Young Jimmy Foxx (just past 21) of the "Athletics." Player Ott has made 26 home-runs, is hitting around .324, fields with speed and skill. He is an outfielder, gifted with a rare throwing arm. The "Giants" acquired him at the age of 16, without any Minor League experience...
...Rare though .400 is even in "lively" ball days, the highest season's average was made years before even the introduction of the cork centres-.438 by Batsman Duffey of the Boston Nationals in 1894. Other high season averages...
Inanimate objects, too?hand-organs, opera-cloaks, acacia-blossoms?the rare Molnar dramaturgy makes almost articulate. Much is said about the Molnar technique?brilliant, original. In The Play's the Thing the curtain rises on characters discussing the best way to begin a play. In Mima he builds up his climax by repeating a scene three times. In both these plays, in most of Molnar, there are several planes of reality, arranged provocatively and with an eye to permanence...
George Mosher, 14, "kala-azar victim" (TIME, July 1), died last week. Ten blood transfusions, the interest of the Rockefeller Institute and the New York Health Department, the hard work of his hospital doctors, all were useless. Autopsists sought for the rare Asian microbe of kala-azar (tropical black fever) supposed to have killed him. But no organism was found. The verdict: he died of an unusual anemia, called idiopathic aplastic (self-forming, non-tissue-building...
...Adolph Lewisohn's firm belief that good music not only pleases summer enthusiasts, but reduces crime. A reformer of prisons, he collects rare Bibles, impressionistic paintings. He likes to play cards, to win, to sing, to dance...