Word: rout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides Lincoln's stellar performance, three other twirlers, Drib Braggiotti, Frank Wood, and Tommy Wood, and Tommy Bilodeau are rounding into form, and with further practice should develop into capable hurlers. Braggiotti, last year's Sophomore sensation, went the whole rout against Navy, and although he yielded up more hits than did the two enemy pitchers, showed considerable staying power. Bilodeau is still able to last only a few innings, but is a capable relief pitcher...
...Doul Rout...
...Cecil Combs, West Point's undefeated malletmen rode to a sweeping 12-4 victory over the Varsity trio Saturday, while the Jayvees retaliated to rout the cadets...
...resumed their own annoying chatter. Superintendent Lanham was not baffled. First windless night he planned to send out a squad of men armed with large, hydrogen-filled balloons on long strings. These would scare the starlings off the buildings, back into the trees. There his tin-can brigade could rout them back to the buildings. If he kept that up long enough, possibly the starlings' spirits would break...
...debt-ridden Chicago last week, Comptroller R. B. Upham reported that the city's five-year rout into the red had been halted, that a small counteroffensive back into the black had been launched. Issuing a preview of his 1934 report, he announced that, through tax collections, he had brought the city's bonded indebtedness down $11,000,000 from its $136,357,000 total of April 1933. Some $8,000,000 worth of bonds had been retired before their maturity dates. Chicagoans were grateful for thus saving more than $2,000,000 in interest charges...