Word: ty
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Wasp engine in its nose taxied out upon the field of the naval air station at Washington, D. C. Forty gallons of gasoline were in its tank. In the cockpit was no Icarus. Instead was an Apollo wearing no triple woolen under wear ? merely ordinary clothing cased ty a furlined flying suit, sheepskin boots, fur helmet, fur mittens, a mask with an oxy gen tube (his nostrils were plugged so that he must breathe through his mouth) and a pair of goggles with tiny holes in them so that he might see when they be came frosted...
Last week this disciple set foot in Manhattan. Clad in a robe of orange silk he stepped softly down America's gangplank in small felt slippers. His eyes behind heavy spectacles were incurious. He is Tai Hsu (pronounced Ty Shü), onetime abbot of the Pai-Yun-Se Temple near Canton, and conceded China's foremost Buddhist...
...three months ago sailed from San Francisco to Japan. Last week having toured the country lecturing on baseball subjects at Keio, Waseda, Meiji and Osaka (four leading universities which, with a Japanese newspaper, paid for his trip) and having played nine baseball games in the capacity of first baseman, Ty Cobb returned with his party to San Francisco...
...Ty Cobb played baseball in Japan as a member of the teams of above named colleges, against their rivals. Usually, the team of which he was a member won the game and this was not due to the fact that Umpire Quigley was officiating. The reason was a more significant...
Although 20,000 persons were usually on hand to watch him play, and though the curious cries of the Japanese enthusiasts, who greeted him as Babe Ruth's cousin, must have helped convince him that he had not passed his prime, Ty Cobb, as soon as he returned to the U. S., reiterated his intention of retiring from professional baseball. He said that he was not considering becoming the manager of any big league team; he will go for a hunting trip soon and after that he will spend a year in touring Europe...