Word: ripping
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...four years, National League batsmen had been trying to fathom Rip Sewell's pet pitch. Rip called it an ephus ball after an old crap-shooting phrase, ephusiphus-ophus; sportswriters called it a blooper. Whatever its name, it was lobbed up to the plate, fat and inviting, with lots of backspin-and, if hit, usually popped up high in the air to the second-baseman...
...other, the best speed to reduce slippage of discs, the most economical depth of tillage. Said he: "It's the top four inches you're interested in. . . . It may give you a lot of emotional satisfaction to put the nose of a plow 'way down and rip it up, but it doesn't grow any better crops." Deep plowing is more expensive. He has found that costs increase 20% when tillage depth increases from three to four inches...
Deadline night, 16,884 fans filed into Forbes Field. They were not sure whether they would see a game, but they did expect to see some fun. The management was all set to field a team of the two "loyalists" (Pitcher Rip Sewell and Infielder Jimmy Brown) and a grab bag of has-beens and sandlotters who might do almost as well as Pittsburgh's seventh-place regulars. The visiting Giants warmed up on the field, while 36 unionized Pirates locked themselves in the dressing room for two hours to argue and take a vote. Outside, newspapermen stood...
...footnote to a recent article of yours [TIME, Dec. 17] unjustifiably criticized Rip's Tennis Courts at 39th Street and Park Avenue, New York City. . . . These courts are well-laid-out, well-surfaced and well...
...nation as a whole, La Follette the elder was a radical. Twice he bolted the G.O.P. to raise the Progressive banner and seek the presidency. Twice he was rejected. Wisconsin Progressivism remained a rip tide of political thought in the Republican sea. To be elected, La Follette had always to return to the G.O.P. But Fighting Bob believed that the nation would eventually embrace the Wisconsin Idea; he trained his two sons to follow; in his footsteps. When he died, plump, quiet, sleek-haired Bob Jr. went to Washington and took his father's seat in the Senate...