Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston, eternally hopeful Red Sox fans pinned large hopes on a pair of reclaimed pets-slim-jim Slugger Ted Williams and chunky Bobby Doerr-and didn't see that their Sox were down at third base and right field, and only at half-mast in pitching...
Unlike the American League, which had almost no spring rookies to rave about, the National League was full of them. One even crept into the solid Cardinal lineup: Dick Sisler, (batting .443) son of the great George Sisler, pushed Ray Sanders (batting .192) off first base. After the Cardinals, the National League lineup looked like this...
...Exchange does not regard all splitting suspiciously. In fact, Schram suggested that corporations which have good earnings records, but high-priced securities, split their shares. This would broaden their base of ownership and ease the shortage of sound, low-priced stocks...
...only talkative contestant in the race to produce a cheaper car was James D. Mooney, bouncing, bustling president of Willys-Overland Motors, Inc. His plans: a six-cylinder model weighing only 2,500 Ibs. (smallest Ford weighs 3,011 Ibs.) with standard wheel base, wide seats, and "gasoline economy which will amaze the driving public." The 1947 Willys will be in production early next year, will sell for less than any of the present models of Plymouth, Ford, or Chevrolet...
...evidences of continued decline exist and are of great concern to those who feel the absence of the traditional Harvard leadership. Perhaps the faculty has been enervated by the war. Whatever the reason, Harvard has lost pre-eminence in many of the departments of the Humanities. The very base of the individuality of the University, the tutorial system, is threatened; new concepts of the old truism, intellectual balance within the student body, spread doubt that a worthy theory will be applied. The faculty may already be committed to the General Education Plan, but the undergraduate body stands at the shore...