Word: batch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...getting elected governor of Michigan last November, the C.I.O. hurriedly set out to help him run the state. Personable "Soapy" Williams, a New Dealing Grosse Pointe socialite (and an heir to the Mennen shaving-cream fortune) soon had a press secretary handpicked by U.A.W. Chieftain Walter Reuther, and a batch of other officers who had been blessed by the C.I.O. Political Action Committee. Considering that the C.I.O. (530,000 dues-paying members in Michigan) was the biggest group to support him in the campaign, Governor Williams thought it was the thing...
...good. In 1945 Coal-&-Iceman Dick Muckerman stepped in. Save for the wartime year 1944, when the Browns surprised everybody by winning their first pennant since the American League was organized in 1901, the threadbare Browns went from bad to worse. About a year ago, the Browns sold a batch of their best players in order to stay solvent. The chief trouble, it seemed, was that St. Louis was a one-team town and the flashy St. Louis Cardinals were that team. The Browns were caricatured on sport pages as a bearded hillbilly leading a forlorn hound dog. Except...
Before his death in Wakefield, R.I. three and a half years ago, at 72, Nock destroyed all his manuscripts and papers except for one batch of letters and this little journal, which is a continuation of his Journal of Our Days, published in 1934. It begins with Nock setting out by steamer for Florida and ends after his 1935 vacation in Belgium. His notations are casual and apparently aimless: he notes the appearance of a handsome Jewess on the ship, the drab, suburban-New Jersey-type architecture of parts of Florida. He comments on book reviewers and publishers, Mrs. Roosevelt...
...also have to make sure the machine is working properly," she went on, "so we rescore several papers from each batch by hand." Each set of tests is also run through the machine twice to make sure that there have been no errors in correcting. Thus far, Dyer claimed, the correcting apparatus has never made a mistake that wasn't caught by the human scorers in his University Hall headquarters...
...manuscript was still in existence somewhere. One day a scholar casually remarked that he thought he might have seen the Dream while going through the family papers of a certain Baron Jacques Le Vavasseur, Diderot's direct descendant. Apparently, Diderot's daughter had passed on a whole batch of papers to her descendants. The family had let only two untrained amateurs take a look: it thought the less said about Diderot's escapades and radical ideas the better. Dieckmann got only a curt refusal when he wrote the baron...