Word: sinker
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...displayed in recent years has been uncovered in the month's activity under the nets. Jim Mains, right-hander from Boston has the fastest ball of any hurler on the lot, and his speedy slants have impressed Coach Samborski. Dave Riley, another rangy ace sports a vicious sinker and a measure of control, while Andy McCullough, another hopeful is steadier than any of the '45 pitchers to date...
...Threw his usual eccentric sinker in tossing out the first ball of the new baseball season (Yanks beat the Nats, 3-0), leaving Woodrow Wilson's clear supremacy as a pitching President still unchallenged...
...week's end the scare blew up-but not the need for it. No one believes German claims-especially claims of sinkings, which the sinker can seldom confirm. But when the German High Command announced at week's end that 224,000 tons had been sunk on, over, and under the sea, and that of them 22 ships of 116,000 tons had been sunk by "a battleship unit" in the North Atlantic, it was obvious that the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were up to dirty work...
...last the critics and intellectuals have gotten Charley Chaplin, hook, line, and sinker. Conscious that he has an IMPORTANT MESSAGE to bring to America, he has in his first talkie painfully given birth to a bastard offspring in which Chaplin the world's greatest clown plays second fiddle to Chaplin the preacher...
...stirring in rich batter, then fry. . . ." The Japs firmly believe that they have the world by the tail, especially when smearing on the rich batter of trade promises to stir up appeasement talk and dangling mythical profits from war materials as bait which we have swallowed hook-line-and-sinker for nine years, ". . . then...