Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven weeks, the hottest spot in baseball-managing the New York Yankees-was empty. Manhattan sportswriters, who abhor a vacuum, rushed in to fill it. They bandied such names as Leo ("The Lip") Durocher, Frank Frisch and Jimmy Dykes. In one week, three sports pages, each professing to be closest to the horse's mouth, named three different...
...definite changes have been announced in the Crimson lineup as yet, although it seems likely that Farrell and Bill Jackson, whose passes and running also drew Harlow's praise, will see considerable action at the tailback post, along with Cleo. Frank Miklos will spell Henry Goethals at quarterback, a spot the dark-haired senior has occupied in monopolistic style for the past two games...
Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor and a prime mover in the Committee for Economic Development, drew an analogy between the Democratic success in 1932 and the GOP sweep on Tuesday. "Every party has its blind spots," he explained. "One of the things which contributed most to the rejection of Hoover in 1933 was that he couldn't visualize adequately the problems of the unemployed and was very slow in getting the Government to help with relief. Now the Democrats have been in office long enough to get into some ruts--to develop some blind spots. One big blind spot...
...meet this situation, Harlow announced that he intends to switch Ned Dewey from his present tackle post to that of running guard, a position he filled on last season's eleven. Howie Houston, whom Harlow rates as his best reserve lineman, will fill Dewey's spot in a move intended to field the best possible eleven men at the coach's disposal against the Indians...
...Yardling three-miler, the Tiger redeemed itself by downing Yale 19 to 42 and the Crimson by 23 to 33, and the latter held its second spot over the Bulldogs by 20 to 43. Princeton's captain Johnson took a fast first in 16:53, and the Yardling barriers, led by Captain Joe Leeming, placed in the four, seven, eight, nine and ten slots...