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...Crimson mound staff, on the other hand, has far from lived up to pre-season expectations. Ed Ingalls, for two years the mainstay of the Mitchell string, has yet to make a starting appearance on the slab. In addition to his old complaint, a trick knee, the veteran righthander has been bothered by a sore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pitching Is Major Weakness of Second Place Crimson Nine---Ingalls Inactive | 4/26/1938 | See Source »

Entire inadequacy of slab artists in the face of heavy sluggers, batters as clay in the hands of stellar pitchers, and an all around exhibition of mental and physical weakness, such as Soldiers Field has not seen since the days of Eric the Red, brought expected defeat to the Lampoon hosts yestere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Batsmen Slug Lampoon "Funny" Men In Easy Baseball Win | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

Hendrick De Kruif and Hausserman shared the slab in the Leverett-Eliot game. The teams got almost as many errors as hits, and several outfielders fell asleep. Steve Madey was not on the Eliot mound, but led his team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Teams Meet in Baseball, Tennis, and Softball | 4/20/1938 | See Source »

...steel in ingot form) is used in an ever-increasing variety of products-tanks, freight cars, automobiles, beer barrels, stoves, refrigerators, signs. Republic's new mill is designed for "tailor-made" production to meet the special demands of each customer. Raw steel arrives at the plant in slabs as long as 16 feet, as thick as six inches, as heavy as eight tons. Shoved into three furnaces at the beginning of the production line, the slabs are cooked to a white-hot 2250°. Then, with a thud that echoes the whole length of the plant, a slab slides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pickled Snake's Tongue | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...late years has turned to playwriting. Three of his plays are currently on the London stage. Last week one of them,*another attempt to dramatize that old riddle, time, failed to impress Manhattan audiences either as drama or as metaphysics. Time and the Conways was like a heavy slab of Yorkshire pudding with no roast beef...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Jan. 17, 1938 | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

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