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Word: walked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...events that proceded this bit of Merriwellian drama were not so exciting. The home team built up an early 3 to 1 edge, along which Ira Godin tightrope-walked until three sharp hits and a two-base error in the eighth tied up the contest. Crimson bats were ominously silent all day, the first clutch of three scores coming from a walk, two sacrifices, a balk and only...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: Baseball Team Edges Out Colby, 4-3 | 4/23/1948 | See Source »

...best ever made at Mercersburg Academy. In spite of some undetermined ailment that kept him in & out of the infirmary, he got through Williams College with a record that led Columbia University's famed Philosopher John Dewey to take him on as a teaching assistant. He took a walk with Psychologist William James, remembers just one comment: "I have a brother [Henry] who writes novels, and he used to be a very good writer, too, but since he got lazy and began dictating, his style has become groping and repetitious. I for one am no longer able to read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Enormous Trifle | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...Devens errors on the first two balls slammed by Crimson batters set the stage for hits by Conlson, Mannino, Lunder, and Coppinger, with a walk to Huntington sandwiched in between. It was good for five runs. Single runs in the third (on Coppinger's single, Gannon's freak hit over second, and Crosby's energetic fly to right) and fourth, when Huntington doubled and Coppinger squeeze-bunted expertly to bring in Mannine, accounted for two more...

Author: By Charles W. Balley nd, | Title: Nine Hammers Devens Gets 20 Hits in 12-9 Win | 4/16/1948 | See Source »

...Communists, scenting propaganda, countered with reports of another miracle: a statue of Garibaldi had dismounted from its horse, smoked a cigar and inquired about Vatican scandals. In Rome, the weather was fitful. Said one overcoated man: "It seems warm when the sun is up, but as soon as you walk into the shade the cold air catches you like a knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: Europe in the Spring | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...name will help the Liberal-Democrat opposition in a doubtful district. For Batista, it is a foot in the Cuban political door. Because most Cubans have forgotten his brutal police methods, remember only that meat & butter were cheaper in his time, Batista is likely to win in a walk without so much as leaving Daytona Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Senator from Daytona | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

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