Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winter of 1948-49, but most U.S. basketball fans thought they knew one thing for a fact: the two best teams in the country were Kentucky and St. Louis. Their meeting in the finals of the National Invitation Tournament in Madison Square Garden was to be the big climax of the season. Last week the big moment came, but neither Kentucky nor St. Louis was there to meet it. In the biggest double upset of the season they had been knocked out of the championship class...
There, under the physical education program, he started to play baseball seriously and caught the eye of such big leaguers as Cleveland's Bob Feller...
...International League, where he played center eld as if he owned it, peppered the pitching for a .340 batting average, and hit 30 home runs. When the Tigers brought him into Briggs Stadium at the tag end of last season, Johnny drew a bead on the first big league ball ever pitched to him and sent it sailing 340 feet into the left-field stands...
...big night, 2,000 Brooklynites piled into the Academy of Music, cheered for two minutes in sheer local pride before the orchestra even played a note. A well-played Beethoven Fifth had them applauding at the end of each movement, but the Don Carlos brought down the house. Then came a pranking Till Eulenspiegel and (for an encore) one of Conductor Zipper's native Viennese waltzes. Brooklyn loved it. Breathed perspiring Conductor Zipper: "I'm so grateful...
...looked as if some of Joe's dreams might come true. Dallas was at last building a big new school combining Edison and Juarez, complete with gymnasium, dining room and auditorium. When it is finished, he will have room for more students than ever before. "Then," says Joe, who still commutes from nearby Oak Cliff, "I'm going to move out here to West Dallas. And I want a house with a big front porch where I can sit and talk to all the kids...