Word: besting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Munro says his team "played the best game of the season" Tuesday, and yesterday he gave a day off from practice as a reward...
First of all, there is the all-night movie in Scollay Square. The features change too rapidly to keep track of. We've been informed, however, that this week's show includes four of Tom Mix's very best. Absolutely the place to go if you're rather not come home and face your roommates...
Vienna is the best example of the country's unplanned future. Almost one-third of Austria's people live in the capital. Unlike Paris on London, however, the city is unproductive. Its men of substance are doctors, lawyers, scholars, shopkeepers, or government personnel, but not manufactures or industrialists. Its former marketing and trading revenue is virtually non-existent. The rest of the country cannot support it either in food or function...
Without the sobering sight of Vienna, a tourist attending the Salzburg Festival would tend to overlook the dilemma of Austria, for there he would hear one of the world's finest orchestras, some of the best singers, and see good theater in a city which lost only its railway station in the war. Openly buying at the blackmarket exchange rate, he might not notice that lemons are unobtainable because the legal rate of 10 schillings to the dollar is prohibitive to Italian exporters. He would not realize that Austria is a thoughfare for refugees from Eastern Europe. He would...
...offers Italian-American cuisine for those who don't want to hike it all the way to Boston. You can't beat the Viking at 442 Stuart Street for variety. A heaping smorgasbord is within easy striking distance of most tables. Jake Wirth's on Stuart Street featrues the best local Gorman beer and food, while the Cafe de Paris at 165 Mass. Ave in Boston flaunts French cooking and wine to match...