Word: started
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Exposition visitors who chanced to be in Oklahoma City later in the week watched two figures, protected by metal shields and a heavy barrage of water, start to work their way toward the centre of an oil fire. They were Mack and Fred Kinley, famed for their fire-fighting technique. After two days of slow progress, the Kinleys succeeded in removing the twisted debris of the derrick and in placing a gelatin bomb near the well's flame-spouting mouth. The same moment that an electric contact ignited the bomb a special battery of boilers threw live steam...
...between Ehmke and Manager Connie Mack. Before the regular season ended Manager Mack sent Ehmke to scout the Cubs. He told a friend in confidence that though Ehmke had needed relief in each of the only two games he won for the Athletics this year, he would let him start if Ehmke said he wanted to. "He has one good day a year, and he knows when it's coming." Amazed, the Chicago rooters saw Pitcher Ehmke's easy looking curves, mixed with occasional fast ones, break a world series record by striking...
Third Game. Cub Pitcher Guy Bush coming up to bat at the start of the sixth, capered, skipped and grimaced according to instructions of McCarthy, who had said to him: "See if you can diddle a walk." With Bush and English on base, Hornsby and Cuyler, razzed as they came up for having struck out twelve times in two games and a half, each made clean hits. After that Pitcher Bush seemed to get more speed on the ball; his curve broke faster and Philadelphia only got one more hit. Cubs 3, Athletics...
Apollo--"Harlem". A melodrama that sets a fast pace from start to finish...
...after he has trailed the cadet lines down the streets and across the river he is reconciled to his lot once more. All during the past week a feeling of restlessness has been growing more and more pronounced, and most disconcertingly the Vagabond would come to himself with a start in the midst of a lecture to find that inwardly he was listening to martial music...