Word: background
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Neither background nor training suggests the single-minded operator who led the money-hungry major leagues westward to the California gold fields. Nothing betrays the brash architect of baseball's biggest revolution since a Brooklyn pitcher named "Candy" Cummings fired the first curve and separated the men from the bushers. A Bronx-born Giant fan who seldom bothered to go to a ballpark, Walter O'Malley went to work for the Dodgers as an attorney. "Why, I don't think he even knows what Duke Snider makes," snorts the Dodgers' Vice President and General Manager Emil...
...trail to California began in The Bronx, where he was born on Oct. 9, 1903. He was the only son of Manhattan Politico Edwin J. O'Malley, a man who could trace his ancestry back to County Mayo, and Alma Feltner O'Malley, a woman whose family background was stolidly German. At Culver Military Academy young O'Malley had his first and last brush with baseball as a player. He caught a ball on his nose, and quit. At the University of Pennsylvania he shunned athletics to become the complete politician. "I believe he was the first...
After Florovsky and Stendahl described their "Continetal background," where "a university is not regarded as a community," William R. Crout 3 GD, pointed out that no speaker had upheld the tradition of the Anglo-Saxon university. This viewpoint, Crout said, "should not be omitted...
...most intensive study done within this group was a comparison of 44 students who did leave to an equal number who finished Harvard in four years. The family backgrounds, geographical origin, preparatory school background, medical history, personal difficulties, College Board scores and the future plans, of both groups were compared...
...really doesn't feel he should be here, should leave, except if he wants to leave because he thinks he's going to flunk the course. My feeling is that leaving is like constructing a building--often you must go back to get materials to complete the structure, a background to finish college...