Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Youngest team, as figured by statistics-minded Brooklyn Boss Branch Rickey: his own Dodgers, with an average age...
...seventh place early this season, experts had no trouble suggesting why. For one thing, Outfielder Stan ("The Man") Musial, who led the league with .376 last year, was bogged down around .250; for another, the Cardinal pitching staff seemed to have come apart,. Finally, by tabbing up the ages of everybody on the squad, it was possible to show that the Cards were really a bunch of tired old men (average age: 29).* By last week, most of these weighty considerations were being gently consigned to ash cans...
...This is our position. This is what we hold. We don't want it watered down. This is what it is and nothing else.' . . . We've got the dynamite and we don't want that watered down, either. Explode it. It's an explosive age...
Bombs & Bayonets. The man who planted the big tree was Ryuhei Murayama, art collector, patron of the No dance, and, until his death in 1933 at the age of 83, Japan's most vigorous and imaginative publisher. In the 52 years that lean, white-bearded Murayama ran Asahi, he built it up from a struggling lo?al sheet to a national institution with editions in Osaka, Tokyo and Kokura...
...several moments, Alexander Dunlop Lindsay of Oxford University stared at the departing figure of the young man with the coal scars on his face. The man, a Staffordshire miner named John Elkin, had left school at the age of ten; yet he had come a long way to hear Lindsay lecture on philosophy. "I heartily wish," sighed Lindsay, "that all my university students had a brain as good...