Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Touted Wide. Medical researchers and big, blond Dr. John R. Mote, head of Armour Laboratories, would be happier if publicity on ACTH could have been delayed until their work was farther advanced. But the results of the first experimental treatments were too good to be withheld. The laboratories and clinics known to be using ACTH experimentally were bombarded with unanswerable requests from arthritis sufferers for a supply of the drug...
...suit on file in U.S. District Court in Washington last week, Chapman complained that his memory now has big gaps in it and that his personality has changed for the worse. His capabilities have been reduced, he claims, along with his initiative, and that cuts down his chances of advancement. However, having been acquitted on charges of drunkenness and assault, Chapman still had enough initiative to sue the Washington Terminal...
Every American League pitcher has had to get acquainted, early in his big-league career, with a droopy, lackadaisical figure who plays shortstop for the Chicago White Sox and who comes up to the plate, sometimes limping, as if he had been called on to move a locomotive with a crowbar. The name of this apparition is Lucius Benjamin ("Luke") Appling. Droopy Luke spits a casual stream of tobacco juice, chats in a friendly Southern drawl with the umpire and opposing catcher, and usually complains that he is feeling just terrible. His symptoms may range from an upset stomach...
...only American League shortstop who has ever led his league twice in batting, and his 1936 average, .388, is the best figure for any big-time shortstop in modern baseball history. Appling makes more errors than a star infielder should, but he has led American League shortstops seven times in number of assists, and he is a wizard with bad-hopping grounders. He has made a crack double-play man out of the Sox's young second baseman, Cass Michaels, with whom Appling rooms on the road...
...sport of kings under lights; trainers, who like to work their charges in the cool of early morning, hate any thought of changing their customs; and jockeys dislike the idea of joining the nightworker class. But a few horse-park operators have been dreaming, somewhat wistfully, of the potentially big turnouts they might draw after dark...