Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subsequent journeys in service led him in 1945 to the New London Submarine Base, and he was a fullback on the sub base eleven which thrashed Harvard, 18 to 7, last fall. After being discharged from the Navy as an electronic technician's mate second class in April of this year, Moravec entered College in June, and was Coach Adolph Samborski's first-line pitcher for the Crimson's informal summer baseball team...
This week, leaving cold weather and warm controversy behind, the President flew to Key West in the Sacred Cow. There he planned a lazy seven-day vacation in the commandant's quarters of the Key West Naval Base. Sun and rest would prepare the President for the stormy winter ahead...
From the cloud's upper surface great pustules of vapor arose. Out of its base poured streamers of snow. They evaporated before they could reach the ground, but Schaefer flew back to Schenectady in triumph. He had touched off the first man-made snowstorm...
...Markova, Dolin, or Danilova, it depends on skillful and hard-working dancers like Nora Kaye, Alicia Alonso, Lucia Chase, Igor Youskevitch, Michael Kidd, and Antony Tudor and a well-trained corps de ballet. The total effect is of a well-knit group instead of a ragged base with a few added lights, such as the Original Ballet Russ and Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo companies illustrate. With improved financial acumen and a few breaks, therefore, the Ballet Theatre should easily outdistance its two chief opponents in the 1946-47 ballet sweepstakes...
...that would completely satisfy a golden ear."* The FORTUNE survey passed over lower-priced, lower frequency sets like Crosley, Philco and RCA-Victor, discussed chiefly such visually satisfying high-priced machines ($495 and up) as Scott (with its "impressive assortment of tubes, wires and gadgets on a chromium-plated base"), Capehart (which "holds 20 discs and turns them over automatically") and the Meissner ("offers high fidelity. . . . Except for its cabinets, which are elegant, it claims no special features"). FORTUNE did not mention the newly imported London phonograph, which has the same record changer (Garrard) as the Fisher and lightweight pickup...