Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Third Game. It was a hot, sunny day. Manager Street knew that the bleachers in St. Louis would be patched with white shirts, making it hard for the Athletics to hit a sidearm pitcher. Doubtless he would have started Wild Bill Hallahan even if the weather had been different for when Hallahan is good, he is superb, now that catcher's signals simple enough for him to understand have been worked out. At first, in spite of the blind spots made by those white shirts, it did not look like Hallahan's day. Bishop led off with...
...winners and the runner-ups of both tournaments receive medals, gold ones for the winners and silver for the others. It is expected that the finals will be played off next Wednesday if good weather continues. The doubles matches are progressing more slowly than the rest of the contests...
...each other on the back as they tossed their gloves away, and started across the field to the dressing room. It was the last game they needed to make sure of the National League pennant, and the 10,000 fans who had turned out for them in the chilly weather were yelling and throwing out torn-up score cards, newspapers, peanut bags over Sportsman's Park...
...giving his farewell performance at the end of his greatest season, and the crowds that billowed after him, kept in check by U. S. Marines, marshals in red berets, constables wearing pistols, were happy to catch a glimpse of him over somebody's shoulder in the clear September weather...
...after being polished for two years, the large mirror was ready to be installed. Director Harlan True Stetson, onetime Harvard astronomer, watched the installation, summed up in his mind two problems he wants to solve with it: the causes of solar storms, which have a great effect upon terrestrial weather and radio reception; the cosmic clouds which he thinks may surround the earth and sun, may influence the intensity of solar radiation. Perkins Observatory was founded at Ohio Wesleyan University by one of its teachers of mathematics and astronomy, Hiram Mills Perkins. For 50 years, lie saved and invested...