Word: starter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Stahl used three pitchers in his attempt to stop the hard hitting soldiers, many of whom had played Class-A ball in pre-war days. His starter was Jim Phelan, who had his stuff but no control. After walking three men in two and one-third innings, he was lifted in favor of Freshman Jack Stanton...
Wednesday the Crimson took an early 3-0 lead which Fort Devens promptly wiped out, sending starter Bill Hoftyzer to the showers at the same time. Irv Rudman replaced him and pitched firm ball for his first Varsity effort...
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Even that kind of money is chicken feed to what the U.S. will probably have to dish out to keep ceilings fixed. The $1,000,000,000 figure Senator Brown foresaw last week was just a starter; and if $1,000,000,000 sounds high, Leon Henderson had some stratospheric statistics to justify it: price control, he contended, has already saved the U.S. $6 billion on war expenditures; if the ceilings hold for another 20 months, the U.S. will pay $62 billions less for its war than it would if prices rose as they did in World...
...whole, the information outlined in the guide is complete but indefinite. Just for a starter take the section on VALUABLES. "The Committee cannot be responsible for valuables. Anything of this nature should be placed in the custody of one of the banks in Harvard Square." Now granted that it's a very difficult thing to say just what is valuable and what isn't, and an even more difficult thing to tell the banks in the Square apart, we do feel that the authors (for surely this is not the work of one hand alone) could have been more definite...