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Word: autumn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a team of his own. He scraped a Feller wheatfield, organized a team called the Oak Views on which, when he was not pitching, young Bob Feller was the shortstop. In 1934, pitching for Oak View, Bob Feller struck out 161 adult opponents in ten games. That autumn he and his father went to the World Series. Said Bob Feller after the games: "I can do as well as that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball: New Season | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...Boston last autumn, Norman Skelly, 28-year-old Pawtucket, R. I. rollerskating rink proprietor and his friend John Shefuga set out to skate to Los Angeles. They arrived, after covering 4,075 miles, two months and two days later, turned around to hitchhike home. Last week in Manhattan, Skater Skelly proudly exhibited memoranda of the trip. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Transcontinent Skate | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...faith) common law presumes that there is a relationship of confidence between the parties entering into such an agreement and there must be the fullest disclosure by the pact's proponent of its nature and legal effect. Widow Green told Surrogate Owen at an initial probate hearing last autumn that she did not know what she was doing when she signed away her dower rights, thinking the $18,000-per-annum allowance was just to be pin money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Green Grist | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...formed Publishers Service Co. and began to job-lot sets of Dickens and Mark Twain to other publishers who passed them on to readers at cost. Smelling profits, 36-year-old Leonard Davidow chucked his job as publishers' wholesaler at Reading, Pa. last autumn and joined Stanley Livingston to form his Standard American Corp. and Consolidated Book Publishers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Battle of Books | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...alarm over Akron's labor troubles and the possibility of being cut off from his tire source-an alarm which was certainly not stilled by his first encounter with the Sit-Down last week (see p. 20). When his own tire plant gets into production, presumably next autumn, he will be able to supply an estimated half of his total needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ford Tires | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

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