Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MASSACHUSETTS. Paul Andrew Dever, 45, round-faced lawyer and Navy veteran, rode the Democratic tide to wash out the second-term bid of Republican Robert F. Bradford, of Boston's sedate Beacon Street...
Legionnaires were subdued. Suddenly and forcibly, they had been made to realize that their hooligan antics had ceased to amuse. The clincher was the problem of next year's convention. Wailed a committeeman: "For the first time in our history, we have no bid from any city." Nobody seemed to want the American Legion...
...Legionnaires' outward sobriety had paid off. Philadelphia sent along a belated bid for next year's convention. And at week's end, a surprised, pleased and unscratched Miami extended a warm invitation to return again next year-in fact, every year, if they liked...
...been called a faker. More likely, some modern psychiatrists think, he was a stupid man who blundered into an idea too big for him: the phenomena of suggestion and suggestibility. A Frenchman, Jean Martin Charcot, demonstrated that hypnotism could both arouse and quiet symptoms of hysteria. Charcot also bid for fame as the teacher of a Viennese neurologist named Sigmund Freud (rhymes with overjoyed...
Sophomore Dike Hyde made a strong, bid for the starting defensive right end in yesterday's workout--played under the lights--consistently breaking through interference to smear halfbacks trying to sweep his end. Other note worthy play against the Jayvees' Dartmouth offense was turned in by guards Emil Drvaric and Dick Guidera...