Word: stringer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cool, softspoken, crafty, hard and wonderfully cheerful. The Air Commander . . . wears his cigar and chooses his tactics with a jaunty air. The colonels who command Marine regiments and battalions lie in coral-crusted mud with their men, dodge the soprano-chattering Jap 25-caliber guns. . . . A private, a wire-stringer, carried a heavy steel spool of telephone wire eight miles up & down 60° slopes. . . . There are great squads of anonymous heroes. . . . Perhaps the flyers are the greatest. They have made a record equal to anything aerial anywhere...
Coach Floyd Stahl will start the same team that won two games and lost four since the Spring vacation, with but one exception. Bill Parsons, who was a second-stringer behind the plate until the B.U. game last week, will again go out into the right field spot, taking ever for Oscar Hansermann. Parsons won this regular position for himself by his effective hitting in the pinches. Elis double in the tenth was decisive in the extra-inning upset of Columbia last Saturday...
...team's improvement as a whole over that of last year is largely due to the individual improvement of every member of the squad. Orchids in this department go to scrappy little Bill Webber, who in one year, has jumped from an obscure second-stringer to a consistent scoring threat...
Others who have shown a marked improvement over last year are Ed Rothschild, Homer Peabody, and Joe Romano. Rothschild, the only first stringer over the six-foot mark, was just another member of the squad last year. He is now a permanent fixture, having started every game thus far. Peabody, who also adds needed height, did not even play Varsity basketball last year, while Joe Romano was a second string guard...