Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eighth inning rally fell one run short of tying Brown University and the Crimson was consequently on the short end of a 3 to 2 count in Wednesday's game on Soldiers Field. Ted Watts, the Bruin pitcher, started hurling as if he were out to get a no-hitter, by setting the first nine men down in quick order without so much as one ball going to the outfield. The first hit given up by Watts was in the fifth inning and that to his opposing hurler, Jack Wallace...
...ball and sent a long hit down the left field line good for two bases, the only extra-base hit of the afternoon; Roche came in to dent the plate on the hit. Wallace sent Allen to third when he got his second hit of the game, a short line drive that dropped just in front of the left fielder. Eckenroth looked at two strikes and then hit a hard ball back of second, and it looked like it was going out to center field for a hit; but the Bruin shortstop made a spectacular stop of the ball...
Atomic Silver. The Treasury announced with some pride that 14,000 tons of its silver had been used in the manufacture of the atomic bomb. Its function: to replace critically short copper in the electrical connections of the manufacturing apparatus. WPB, acting for the War Department, was the borrower. WPB will have at least six months after the war is officially ended to get all the silver back...
...centuriesthe fat greasy rulers of Algiers, Tunis, Morocco and Tripoli had maintained s gang rule over all Mediterranean shipping. Rather than provoke these fierce Barbary pirates the maritime nations of Europe patiently paid protection money in a steady tribute of jewels, gold, ships and gunpowder. When the youthful U.S., short of ships and cast loose from the protection of the British Navy, decided to join in this appeasment policy. President John Adams sent young William Eaton to supervise...
...triumph was short-lived. Derna's natives flatly declined to rally to Hamet, and Yusuf's men bore down relentlessly from the hills. Just as the marines were preparing for a last-ditch stand, Eaton got word that his government had made peace with Yusuf, selling Hamet down the river...