Word: bowling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Witness Jacob Werber, German, remembered how he was "locked into a dog's cage, a chain was put around his neck, food was handed him in a bowl, and he had to eat like...
...famed Davis Cup, stowed away in an Australian vault for six years, was polished last week for an old ritual. In Melbourne's ancient Town Hall, twenty envelopes, containing challenges from 20 nations, were plucked one by one from the big silver bowl. This ceremony, to determine the 1946 Davis Cup draw, set the wheels of international tennis turning again...
Yale, faced with much the same problem, has ordered 200 Quonset huts to be set up in an area behind the Bowl. M.I.T. has built new pre-fabricated homes for their veteran students, combining an experiment in this type of construction with the housing of the married men. These structures cost from $4,000 to $5,000 each, as opposed to a probable $400 or $500 apiece for the FPHA units...
Miss Fiorenza Quartararo, a San Franciscan of Italian parentage, had made only two big-league appearances before: once when she filled in for Helen Traubel on a day's notice at the Hollywood Bowl, once on Bing Crosby's radio program. She called herself Florence Alba then. When she won the $1,000 Caruso Award last fall and was hired by the Met, the Met persuaded her to go back to her original name. She will make her formal Metropolitan debut next month-as Micaela...
...deadlock is broken, the worst of the U.S. sugar shortage may end this year. If it is not, the housewife will find her sugar bowl empty...