Word: tying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...restless Lester Pfister, the revolution was a long time coming. A farm boy who quit school in the eighth grade to work in the cornfields at $30 a month, he has been inbreeding and crossbreeding corn since 1925. Neighbors, watching him tie paper bags over corn tassels and ear shoots to control fertilization, called him "Crazy Lester." To keep up his experiments he mortgaged everything he owned. When depression hit, he stalled off bankruptcy only by ducking meetings of his creditors. One day he went to an El Paso bank to plead for a last-ditch loan. Unwrapping a newspaper...
...Yale team, considered the best in recent Eli history jumped to a quick lead of three goals in the first ten minutes of the game. But the Crimson fought back with some of its best play of the season to tie up the game...
Captain Jack Donelan will pitch for the Yardlings in his eighth mound appearance. His record stands at 4-2, with one tie. Donelan is neither very fast nor very tricky, but his control throughout the season has been remarkable...
Kirkland and Eliot ended yesterday in a tie for second in the House softball league, Kirkland losing to Lowell, 12 to 3, and Eliot crushing Adams, 5 to 2. Kirkland and Eliot will contend tomorrow for the right to tie Winthrop for the championship...
With only three games left on the schedule, the Yardlings now sport a record of seven victories, five defeats, and one tie. This record should make the squad a slight favorite to trim the inexperienced Leicester nine...