Word: besting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Best Place To Be Poor...
Pitchers. The pitchers have been having a hard time. Where once it was something of a disgrace for a pitcher to be batted out of the box, it is now a matter for comment when a pitcher lasts the full nine innings. "Best" pitcher of the year has been Robert Moses Grove of the Philadelphia Americans. A huge young man, Pitcher Grove propels the ball at such speed that few batters are able to time it correctly, and no matter how "lively" a ball may be it will travel no distance when the batter misses it. The Grove record...
...birthday presents. U. S. consumers in general do not buy, use or see steel in its unmanufactured state. Yet every U. S. citizen has an interest in the earnings of steel corporations, should be pleased when steel is strong, concerned when steel is weak. The steel business is best index of U. S. prosperity. Steel enters into so many U. S. industries that booming steel means booming business. As steel goes, so goes the country...
Steel has lately been going at record pace. Best second quarter earnings since the war. . . . Unprecedented third quar ter generally predicted. . . . Industry operating at almost 95% of capacity. . . . Great Northern Railroad has bought 30,000 tons of steel rails. . . . Northern Pacific and Pennsylvania expected soon to place 15,000-ton orders each. . . . Rail roads will buy nearly twice as many freight cars in 1929 as they bought in 1928. . . . Two Chicago office buildings are using 14,-000 tons of structural steel. . . . General picking up in the building industry. . . . Automobiles expecting a 5,200,000 1929 production. . . . Production is expected...
...this, each of the 45 players was moved to a position unorthodox in symphonic seating plans. If he had not been adaptable, Conductor Fiedler might then have found himself pointing to the trombones when he wished to stir up the bassoons. But he soon learned where his men were. Best of all, the scheme worked...