Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tommy Henrich and Stan Musial, at the moment baseball's leading indispensable men, are alike in temperament and talent-except that Musial cannot sing.* Both are southpaws. Both are versatile outfielders, who have filled in at first base in emergencies (and forthwith won rank among the best first-basemen in their leagues). Unlike many other stars, they are specially distinguished by players and sportwriters as "old pros," team players without ego or flamboyance...
...Brooklyn, his big bat thumped out two home runs to knock the Dodgers out of first place (6-3). Next night, Musial's 14th-inning triple with two men on base upset the Dodgers again (7-4). In Boston, he connected for home run No. 9 to help beat the Braves, 8-1. Musial's batting average jumped 39 points in one week-to a healthy .297-and the Cardinals were within striking distance of the National League lead...
...CRIMSON is convinced that any answer will be unsatisfactory. Even the most intelligent men in the country could not devise just and fair methods of carrying out this policy: for it is a dangerous policy, it is a policy base on fear, it is a policy that is subversive of the American tradition...
...everybody in the armed services except recruits, along lines recommended by a civilian commission, after a year's study. Cost: $350 million the first year. Total monthly pay of a major general has risen only 11% ($805 to $895) since 1908 while a private's base pay has been boosted almost 350% (from $18 to $80). But since the new bill favors the brass, a group of ex-G.I.s in the House raised such a fuss that it was sent back to committee...
Graham remembered him as a young instructor at North Carolina, where he had been a rangy prodigy who played first base on the scrub baseball team a few years before. Others remembered him on his first trip abroad, a lanky six-footer who used "mouth-filling sesquipedalian words," wore high-necked collars, and was determined to become Shaw's Boswell. He had taken one mathematics Ph.D. at North Carolina, took another at the University of Chicago. In between, he studied under Einstein at the University of Berlin...