Word: stringings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whittemore set the rally off to a weak but effective start when he got a life on the Eli third-string third-sacker's low throw to first. Cleo O'Donnell twice failed with sacrifice bunts, then punched his fourth single to short left. Both advanced on Berg's bunt, and Whittemore came home after Bart Harvey's long fly to left field. Bull Barnes followed with another outfield single to drive in O'Donnell, and that was the ball game...
...cries Expert Kiralfy. "It is a second prime front. Wishfulness cannot change this unquestionable definition, but military science can convert it into a victorious front." Northward-Ho. How? Says Author Kiralfy: "There is a homely saying to the effect that if the harness breaks and no other is available, string should be used. . . . Many harnesses have been broken, so much string will have to be used." The particular string with which Kiralfy would bend his bow is an Allied invasion of Japan from the half-Russian island of Sakhalin. Sakhalin is almost within firing distance of the northern Japanese island...
Schubert: Quintet in C Major (Budapest String Quartet, with Benar Heifetz, cellist; Columbia; 12 sides). This lyric, dark-hued quintet, composed in the last months of Schubert's life, has the "heavenly length" of his Seventh Symphony. Finely, sensitively played...
Labrador's air base is merely one in a string, stretching northward from Newfoundland to Baffin Island. From Newfoundland and Labrador planes fly a constant anti-submarine patrol. The Labrador fields, although north of the Army's bases in Newfoundland, are better off for all-year flying than those in Newfoundland. Reason: Newfoundland's persistent, plaguing fogs, which have often interrupted but never halted bomber deliveries to Britain. Even Greenland's vast, inland icecap is not the hazard which most people suppose it to be. Says the U.S. Army Air Corps Arctic Manual (published...
...great is Bishop Wade's influence in the Solomon Islands (which string out 1,600 miles just east of New Guinea) that their Melanesian natives (see cut) are known far & wide as his "Black Irish...