Word: beste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...route to zero as the time for model changes approaches.*But if the motor industry's sales were small, last week its purchases-of one material, at least-were big. The buying power of Detroit itself is in the hands of auto purchasing agents, the best bargain hunters in big-time business. To them every posted price is a target to snipe at. They did their 1938 steel buying in two big lots, each time at their own price. Using as bait bigger orders than the steel industry has seen in some time, they are again angling...
...Folklorist Lomax gave him a first shove up the ladder by presenting him in a concert before radio scouts, theatrical agents and pressmen. Lead Belly prospered, bought himself a new guitar, drawled his rhyme-sprouting improvisations in concert halls and over the air. In 1935 he sent for his best girl, swarthy Martha Promise, a Shreveport, La. laundress, and married her in one of the "shoutin'est" suburban weddings Manhattan's Negro colony had ever seen...
...Will, containing several of the best lyrics in U. S. literature, attracted some attention. A year later he published North of Boston, a "book of people" so full of New England scenery and New England tones of voice that even foreigners could get the lay of the landscape and the hang of its inhabitants. His U. S. reputation thus established by his English success, when Frost returned to the U. S. in 1915 he found himself regarded as a famed American poet. In the next 22 years he received honorary degrees from 13 colleges, was thrice awarded the Pulitzer Prize...
...Yale match the Crimson dropped two points in the first foursome as Ace Cordingley and Bob Graves were defeated in best ball and Cordingley lost his individual match. Graves, however, gave Harvard what proved to be the deciding point of the day as he nosed out Yale's Merritt on the 20th green. Henry Thompson, Jack Barr, and Watty Dickerman won their matches, and the Barr-Dickerman duo provided the fifth tally...
Against Williams in an anti-climax afternoon tilt, the Crimson split the singles engagements as Graves preserved his season's undefeated status, but two of the three best-balls were lost. On Friday the team played the best golf of the weekend in trouncing Holy Cross...