Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo, 29-year-old Genzo Kuriyama, ex-paratrooper, faced bankruptcy last month. He jumped 82 feet down a bathhouse chimney. Police reported that soft soot at the chimney's base and "past rigorous training as a paratrooper" prevented completion of his mission...
...Cincinnati's Crosley Field last week, Pitcher Schoolboy Rowe, a lantern-jawed giant of a man, was in trouble. He glanced around, mopped his brow with his fingers. Two Cincinnati players were on base, and a dangerous man was stepping up to bat. Schoolboy fired the ball in toward the plate...
...first Varsity run had crossed the plate in the second inning in the person of Bill Barron, who scooted home from second on Wallace's single to right. Lunder, on base by virtue of a Princeton shortstop's error, took third on the hit and scored when the shortstop muffed Jack Forte's easy grounder...
...would not play ball, then the U.S. must organize its zone of Korea so effectively that, when the occupying armies pulled out, the Communists who now run northern Korea would not be able to swallow the whole country. Since Korea, now that Japan is demilitarized, can be made the base for dominating the coast of east Asia, Hodge's message began to get a hearing...
Deals within Deals. Rank thinks he can. But the main Rank operation in the U.S. is more broadly based. Rank began laying the base in 1936, when he picked up a 25% interest in the then failing Universal Films, Inc. (now merged into Universal-International), thus buying a top U.S. distributor for his movies. Since then, Rank has made deals with Universal-International and Robert R. Young's Eagle-Lion (TIME, Dec. 10, 1945) to distribute at least 19 Rank films a year in the U.S. And this week he announced plans to buy or build theaters...