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... He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party. They included a fountain pen and a silver... ...n the front wheel, and crossed the street to his real-estate office on the ground floor of the Reeves Building. The Reeves Building was as fireproof a... ...ion. It has an active and smoke-misted billiard room, it is represented by baseball and football teams, and in the pool and the gymnasium a tenth of t... ...the interest on mortgages too low; that Babe Ruth, the emi- nent player of baseball, was a noble man; and that “those two nuts at the Climax Vaudevill... ...lture by mail. He began with hesitation: “Well—sounds as if it covered the ground. It certainly is a fine thing to be able to orate. I’ve sometimes th... ... what a way to talk of Papa!” “—simply can’t beat him at getting in on the ground floor of a deal, but let me tell you whenever he springs any ideas a... ...nd of forty thousand dollars had been underwritten; out on the County Fair Grounds a Mike Mon- day Tabernacle had been erected, to seat fifteen thousa... ...ree languages!” said Mrs. Babbitt. “Huh! That’s nothing! So do I—American, baseball, and poker!” “I don’t think it’s nice to be funny about a matter l... ...e was too busy catching up with his office- work to keep it remembered. II Baseball, he determined, would be an excellent hobby. “No sense a man’s wor...

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...so on, till he owned some of the best business sites in the city. Just his ground rent alone brought him, heaven knew how many thousands a year. He wa... ...rd the brokerage and commission office of Gretry, Converse and Co., on the ground floor of the Board of Trade Building, only a few steps away. It was ... ..., Converse & Co. All the more important brokerage firms had offices on the ground floor of the building, offices that had two entrances, one giv- ing ... ... out.” That same morning Landry Court found himself in the corridor on the ground floor of the Board of Trade about nine o’clock. He had just come out... ...icket busking himself in ad- vance of its mates. From the corridors on the ground floor up through the south doors came the pit traders in increasing ... ...lways had an ambition to excel all the other boys. I wanted to be the best baseball player on the block—and I was, too. I could pitch three curves whe...

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...ir knife-handles. The son and heir, Howard, was very much a boy. He played baseball too well to be a very good boy, and for the sake of his own self-r... ...men—up where the air would get at her, and where they would put her in the ground along o’ the worms? If I left her there she’d always be sweet and pr... ...ascended two flights of a broad, brass-bound staircase leading up from the ground floor, and gained the restaurant on the top story of the building. A... ... mountain streams, quail uplands, and the still reaches of inlet and marsh grounds, gray and cool in the early autumn dawn. Condy and Blix got the att... ...bridles, whistling the while or smoking corn-cob pipes. Here on the parade-ground a soldier, his coat and vest removed, was batting grounders and flie... ...ey came around the edge of a long line of eucalyptus trees near the teeing ground, a warning voice suddenly called out: “Fore!” Condy and Blix looked ...

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...rairie but Wakamin was the county- seat, there was no court-house with its grounds. She glanced through the fly-specked windows of the most pretentiou... ...ersed with collars of floral pique which showed mauve daisies on a saffron ground. Newness and an obvious notion of neatness and service. Haydock & Si... ...y recruiting-posters. The damp, yellow-brick schoolbuilding in its cindery grounds. 40 Main Street The State Bank, stucco masking wood. The Farmers’ ... ...h your barber, too?” “No but— No use running this democracy thing into the ground. Besides, I’ve known Nat for years, and be- sides, he’s a mighty goo... ... Tales? Corking yarn! Gosh, the fel- low that wrote it certainly can sling baseball slang!” The others tried to look literary. Harry Haydock offered, ... ...d the mask of winter-stripped vines and a wide porch only a foot above the ground, the cottage was so impersonal that Carol could never visualize it. ... ...l Club with uni- 427 Sinclair Lewis forms of purple and gold. The amateur baseball-team hired a semi-professional pitcher from Des Moines, and made a... ... to make folks observe the Sabbath and arrest these law-breakers that play baseball and go to the movies and all on the Lord’s Day.” Only one thing br...

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...e had so recently come. There were moments when his feet did not touch the ground. Then he was staggering and shoving. He heard shouts of “They are co... ...s fighting. He thrust and struck, staggered, ran, was wedged tightly, lost ground and then was clear again. For some minutes he was running through th... ... more afraid of him. Now all the city’s his millstone, and such as we dust ground upon it. Dust ground upon it. Until he set to work—the workers cut e... ... theatres, houses of resort, bet- ting palaces, miles of billiard saloons, baseball and football circuses, wild beast rings and the innumerable temple... ...equally circumscribed, an accu- rately plane surface being needed for safe grounding. Apart from the destruction that would have been caused by the de... ...e gardens of the belt, in- terspersed among levelled brown patches of sown ground, and verdant stretches of winter greens. The latter even spread amon...

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...ear of the place was built upon piles over the water. But in front, on the ground floor, was a barroom. “Rum an’ gum,” announced the brown sweater, as... ...ent setting, this current that had so suddenly snatched him from the solid ground of his accustomed life? He told himself grimly that he was to have a... ...about on the port tack; Lime Point fell away over the stern rail. The huge ground swells began to come in, and as she rose and bowed to the first of t... ... men for their watches, just as Wilbur remembered to have chosen sides for baseball during his school days. “Sonny, I’ll choose you; you’re on my watc... ...ter. The conversation between the two was tame enough. There was no common ground upon which they could meet. T o her father’s death—no doubt an old m... ...ran met him in the waist. Charlie came running aft. “What was that? Are we grounding? Has she struck?” “No, no; we’re still fast to the kelp. Was it a...

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...were making dinner. We also brought a blanket or something to place on the ground because we played outdoors and there was always plenty of dirt and d... ...the game” (Macmillan 3015). It has been said many tmes by average American baseball fans that they do not think it is fair that the American League is... ...e will certainly risk becoming another hit batter. To surpass all of these baseball politics, base- ball said, “Hey, if you don’t want your pitcher to... ... States would not send the president to fight on the battlefront of a war, baseball teams do not send their pitchers to the plate. Let us imagine a ga... ...as the pitcher, it would be much more exciting. Average, everyday American baseball fan Mike Collura agrees. He sends a comment to the “Voice of the F... ... and writes, “somebody please tell me how watching a pitcher strike out or ground out adds excitement to the game” (Collura 8). Plain and simple, spec... ... in both the field and at bat? David Namec states in his book The Rules of Baseball: Almost every baseball analyst and historian is disturbed, however... ...en and heard chanting “USA! USA!” when their fel- low firemen emerged from ground zero and when rallying behind President Bush’s visit to the city (Ru...

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...n the orchards of Winesburg. In the fall one walks in the orchards and the ground is hard with frost underfoot. The apples have been taken from the tr... ...gathered all of its sweetness. One runs from tree to tree over the frosted ground picking the gnarled, twisted apples and filling his pockets with the... ...horses tied to a post somewhere in the darkness stamped on the hard- baked ground. A cat sprang from under George Wil-lard’s feet and ran away into th... ... Ed Griffith’s saloon old Jerry Bird the town drunk- ard lay asleep on the ground. The runner stumbled over the sprawling legs. He laughed brokenly. G... ...s of their natures, kept suppressed by the heroic labor of breaking up new ground, were released. A kind of crude and animal-like poetic fervor took p... ...House, he became involved in a love affair, and he organized the Winesburg Baseball Club. Joe organized the baseball club because he wanted to be a co... ...County. “He gets everybody working together. You just watch him.” Upon the baseball field Joe Welling stood by first base, his whole body quivering wi... ...After the laugh- 90 Sherwood Anderson ter came the silence. The Winesburg baseball team, under his management, was winning game after game, and the t... ...op and already began to consider himself an au- thority in such matters as baseball, horse racing, drinking, and going about with women. He be- gan to...

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...lish 4 – York campus ABNER ONE OF MY most meaningful possessions is an old baseball cap; it is faded navy blue and has a torn brim and a red and white... ...y favorite, swinging on vines that grew from the trees and extended to the ground. The best vines would swing across a stream. We would see who could ... ...serve the reac- tions of the people who still walk through this hal- lowed ground to try to understand why so many people visit the site. I saw many... ... roof of the building, and I would jump. The split second before I hit the ground, I would wake up with a severe jerk. Unhappily knowing that I was sl... ...Little did we know, but we were being watched. As soon as our bags hit the ground, doors opened and upset ser- geants came up to us. I couldn’t do any... ...Alter stated that some of the fuel pools in the country are actually above ground and not protected by any type of wall like the reactors are (Alter 2...

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...t part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adven- turers. Just as in the early days of British Somaliland, ... ...indisputable drunkards if they incur parentage, and the ex- tension of the grounds of divorce to include this ugly and disastrous habit. I am not aver... ...hat a New Republican ignores sexual morality 75 H G Wells except on these grounds, but so far as his New Republican- ism goes he does, just as a memb... ... enemy for example, or the decision of some great inter- national issue at baseball or cricket. This, one would say, we have made out of that, and so ... ...n ripe to begin a little schooling at the age of five. We have cleared the ground since then of a great number of things that have got themselves mixe... ...y fact alone a great and responsible one, is filled on purely genealogical grounds. In a state that has also an aristocratic constitution this repudia...

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... silk trappings that hung down all around him like a bedquilt, nearly to the ground. “Fair sir, will ye just?” said this fellow. “Will I which?” “Will... ...nd with all the cow ering apprehension of one who was venturing upon awful ground and speaking of things whose very mention might be freighted with ... ...if it is good, all right, I will accept; but if it isn’t, I mean to stand my ground and play my hand for all it is worth.” The door opened, and some m... ...ht to noonday, and showed a thousand acres of human beings groveling on the ground in a general collapse of consterna tion. Well, it rained mortar ... ... had a gang of men on the road, working mainly by night. They were stringing ground wires; we were afraid to put up poles, for they would attract too ... ...the date was now arriving for their first public effort. This experiment was baseball. In order to give the thing vogue from the start, and place it o...

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...OOD AT ATTENTION, each man looking straight before him at the empty parade ground, where the cinder piles showed purple with evening. On the wind that... ... him out of the corners of their eyes. Two officers, far out on the parade ground, were coming towards them. By their gestures and the way they walked... ...ee Soldiers boyishly, turned away and walked slowly back across the parade ground. The other, who was the lieutenant, came to- wards them smiling. As ... ...ndreds of other khaki rows, identical, that filled all sides of the parade ground, while the bugle blew somewhere at the other end where the flag-pole... ... moving-picture show, he thought of his home, of the dark apartment on the ground floor of a seven-storey house where his aunt lived. “Gee, she used t... ...vanced into the ward. “Men,” he shouted in the deep roar of one announcing baseball scores, “the war ended at 4:03 A.M. this morning … . The Armistice...

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...ging lifelessly. No wind animates the yellow cloth. I place a tee into the ground and my ball on it. The hole is listed as 156 yards away. Knowing thi... ...s an adverb or adjective Colloquialism: “A lot of the time I like to watch baseball on television.” Corrected: “Frequently I like to watch baseball on...

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...er of a wide and open field. Its branches spread out and gave shade to the ground beneath. Its trunk was white as snow, its leaves of the finest gold.... ...t T ree released its golden leaves into the air. Instead of raining to the ground, they floated high in the air. Like a million golden butterflies the... ...r they lacked a breeze to stir them. Birds called. Moisture dripped to the ground. Chandra peered from her branch. One eye looked up, the other down. ... ... down to grab her, and every step she took was on boggy and acrid smelling ground. The butterfly was gone. She called out to it and was surprised to h... ...ne cloud gave another the cold shoulder until a hail of insults pelted the ground. For hours and hours the battle raged, long into the night. Bodies c... ...box to his mother. Inside they found a beautiful glass ball, the size of a baseball. It was clear glass with red stripes flowing down it from top to b...

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...er of a wide and open field. Its branches spread out and gave shade to the ground beneath. Its trunk was white as snow, its leaves of the finest gold.... ...t T ree released its golden leaves into the air. Instead of raining to the ground, they floated high in the air. Like a million golden butterflies the... ...r they lacked a breeze to stir them. Birds called. Moisture dripped to the ground. Chandra peered from her branch. One eye looked up, the other down. ... ... down to grab her, and every step she took was on boggy and acrid smelling ground. The butterfly was gone. She called out to it and was surprised to h... ...ne cloud gave another the cold shoulder until a hail of insults pelted the ground. For hours and hours the battle raged, long into the night. Bodies c... ...box to his mother. Inside they found a beautiful glass ball, the size of a baseball. It was clear glass with red stripes flowing down it from top to b...

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...ecause of the lack of water on land, the tree trunks grow down through the ground and through the cave’s hollow space, to reach the cave’s water beds.... ...mall, old, ragged sign that hung between two poles about four feet off the ground. “Definitely not hip on the adver- tising,” I thought to myself. The... ...e landscape draped in white, the trees hanging over as to almost touch the ground, homes pillowed in a fluffy white shroud, winter had surely arrived ... ...ive. This would go on of course until finally you collapse and fall to the ground, dead because of the loss of blood. If becoming completely lost the ... ...fort to live, I dug my nails into the rock face that was dumping me to the ground below. Instead of feeling, I heard the nail tear from my finger like... ...-grade equipment is going to be very ex- pensive. An official major league baseball, identical to the ones they use in games, costs over ten dollars. ... ...rs. When was the last time any of you went out and spent ten dollars for a baseball to play catch with. No, I’m not talking about being a professional...

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..., and go on playing. Tots as they were, they pulled together and stood their ground in childish battles with doubled fists and uplifted voices, which ... ...ed her and turned away toward “the house.” The lovers were just entering the grounds of the pension. They were leaning toward each other as the watero... ... the lady in black, gaining steadily upon them; old Monsieur Farival, losing ground inch by inch, and a young bare footed Spanish girl, with a red ke... ...was nothing more than a rusty buoy, with an opening on one side, sunk in the ground. The water which the youth handed to them in a tin pail was not co... ...hy, gro tesque monsters across the grass. Edna and Robert both sat upon the ground—that is, he lay upon the ground beside her, occasionally picking a... ...quare chin, and a little finger which he can’t straighten from having played baseball too energeti cally in his youth. Because—” “Because you do, in ...

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...that brings forth such grapes of Sodom, “Cut it down, why cumbereth it the ground?” Luke xiii. 7. The sword of divine justice is every moment brandish... ...t night. In this way he learns to be a burglar as other boys learn to play baseball or golf. Naturally he has no strong sense of property rights. He h... ... ago. True, there was in the past a small mixture of children in the grist ground out in the criminal courts. Usually they received some leniency, and... ... doubt a public opinion that would favor divorces on a greater num- ber of grounds and make them easily obtainable would pre- vent large numbers of su... ...base of supplies. The insane are exempted from punishment for crime on the ground that they are not able to prepare and attend to their cases when pla... ... prepare and attend to their cases when placed on trial and on the further ground that their “free will” is destroyed by disease or “something else,” ...

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...vision. These men were my role models. They were my favorite athletes in baseball, and they inspired me to play. I told myself, “Brad one day you wi... ...as in tee-ball my dream was to play in the majors. The first time I played baseball, I was six years old. I remember being only as tall as the tee. No... ...lways too busy running in circles, jumping into the air, or rolling on the ground. When the ball was hit to me, I stood and looked at it for a while. ... ...he ball and my defensive skills as well. This was just the beginning of my baseball career. Little league was the happiest time of my life, but I lost... ...ne more year. I hated it, so I decided to quit, and I have not picked up a baseball since. HANG IN THERE Brad Hart 7 Volume 5 W ALKING THE HALLS of N... ...the colon is an independent clause: “I like the three most popular sports: baseball, basketball, and bowling.” The sentence—“The three sports I like b... ...e of the swamp, near the huckleberry bushes, and provide shade to keep the ground from drying out too quickly. It is said that these trees may be dyin...