Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tour, Metropolitan Soprano Helen Traubel turned up in Burbank, Calif, to check on one of her sideline investments: the hapless St. Louis Browns, midway through their spring tune-up. Part-Owner Traubel, in good voice, gave a pep talk to the players, then retired to a rooter's bench to watch her team win (6 to 5) an exhibition game with the Cleveland Indians...
...resolution was introduced on Beacon Hill yesterday calling for the removal of Judge Arthur P. Stone '93 from the bench of Cambridge's Third District Court...
Twice before, in 1933 and 1938, attempts were made to remove Stone from the bench. Both failed...
London Publisher Philip Unwin thinks he knows why Britons, cabined in their own austere little isles, have been snapping up such books. "Every man, whether at a factory bench or sitting in an office with his hat and rolled umbrella hung behind him, secretly longs for the sort of adventure of which these books tell. The illusion is heightened because they are true stories. He knows it can be done and has been done...
...Cliffedweller gave her last $1 to help a little old lady she saw sitting on a bench in the Common yesterday. Several minutes later a police sergeant found $33,000 stuffed away in the handbag of the 70-year old woman, whom the student thought looked destitute...