Word: thirteenths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pair of back to back extra base hits in the top of the thirteenth gave Tufts a 2 to 1 lead Russ Johnson leading off in the bottom of the frame, popped to first. Captain Charley Walsh started the Crimson rally, singing sharply to right center...
Tufts went ahead again in the top of the thirteenth. Bennett hit a line drive triple between the fielders in right center. Dick Thomann, next up smashed a double to almost the same spot...
Coach Graham Taylor commented: "This is the finest result we've ever had in big-league racing," and went on to praise Neil Dixon, John Hart, and Jim Lawson, who finished eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth respectively in the 55-man field. Their times were 60 minutes 11 seconds, 60 minutes 13 seconds, and 60 minutes 22 seconds, respectively...
...explicitly near the end, is that humans love life, and for that reason life kills them. This is an interesting and tenable idea. But in his attempt to prove its truth, he heaps one unbearable emotion on top of another. The bloody last scene (which happens to be the thirteenth) kills off the hero and heroine. M. Lenormand has reached the worst of his worst. There is nothing more to say. One last, unbearable emotion, and the play ends with a gasp...
...origins of the game certainly belie its claim to rationality. Cricket probably began sometime around the thirteenth century, but no one is sure, give or take a century or two. Tracing the origins of the game is a popular indoor sport in some circles, and there are books which will attempt to overwhelm you with a battery of Old English words and historical anecdotes of dubious authenticity. But all that is really known in that the game is unspeakably old and unspeakably traditional...