Word: beste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Runners-up to the Yankees last year, the Red Sox were a powerful offensive team. They had the best batting average (.299) in the league, were 25 percentage points ahead of the Yankees. But they were weak in pitching. And pitching is considered 80% of baseball. To improve their defensive strength, Owner Tom Yawkey last winter bought Elden Auker and Jake Wade from the Tigers and Denny Galehouse from the Indians. But the pitcher from whom they expect big things (just in case Lefty Grove's arm is really dead) is Woodrow Rich, 22-year-old hillbilly...
...Best of all, Elektro obeys orders. He converts the sound vibrations of prearranged commands into electrical impulses, as a telephone does, and these impulses set him in motion. He is quite indifferent, however, to what words are used; the number and spacing of the syllables are what he pays attention...
Kansas. Outside Hollywood, only one U. S. literary man appeared in the Treasury Department's list of 1937's highest salaried citizens: Dr. Arthur Hertzler, author of the bucolic, best-selling tribute to the struggling country physician, The Horse and Buggy Doctor. Highest salaried man in Kansas in 1937, Dr. Hertzler was president of the Halstead Hospital Association...
...best of the Federal Writers' Project's books, The Oregon Trail describes the highway as it is now (near the crest of the Sherman Range, Wyo., 8,835 ft. up, it warns: "Blizzards frequent in this vicinity, October to April; usually come very suddenly; seek shelter at once."). Its best accomplishment is its picture of the Oregon Trail's magnificent past-a picture communicated by rare photographs of wagon trains, railway construction camps, settlers' cabins, scalped hunters (see cut), as well as by new accounts of the pioneers who moved like a tidal wave across...
Margery Sharp is a bright-eyed, diminutive, facetious English girl whose The Nutmeg Tree was a surprise best-seller two years ago. As a followup, Harlequin House is less surprising; it tells a bouncing, bubbling, frankly inconsequential story about giddy Lisbeth and her shiftless brother Ronny, with Lisbeth managing four men at once in a campaign to reform Ronny who had spent six months in jail for somebody else's racket...