Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when the pressure of big-time golf began to keep Byron Nelson from sleeping nights, he quit the tournament circuit. Nelson worked on his 730-acre Texas ranch, drove a tractor, played a little exhibition golf during the summer. But he came out each year for the Masters, exposing himself to the rigors of tournament competition...
...Masters a fortnight ago, looking younger than he did three years ago, baby-faced Byron said cheerfully: "I just came over to have some fun." But he didn't really mean it. Last week, at 37, the man once famed for his iceberg nerves and his carefully stylized mechanical swing announced that he was back for some tournaments on the summer tour...
When the buyers' market came, Schwab was not caught napping. Since Robert Hall Clothes buys most of its fabrics from other mills and hires other manufacturers to make most of its clothes, it could pick up goods cheaply and make bargain deals with suitmakers. Thus it could balance off the slump in its own textile operations and go after the newly price-conscious U.S. consumer. Said Jake Schwab: "We're the A. & P. of the clothing business, and that's what the business needs most right...
...news in food came out of the Agriculture Department. In its new crop forecast for 1949, the Bureau of Agricultural Economics estimated-normal or bumper crops of almost everything. BAE estimated the winter wheat crop at a whopping 1,019,686,000 bu., well over last year's 990,098,000, and second only to 1947's record 1,068,048,000 bu. With good weather and a probable 325-million-bu. carryover from the 1948 crop, the U.S. would be up to its ears in wheat by summer. What with good crops and lower prices, the Bureau...
Harvard's lone touch (worth three points) came after a protracted second half scuffle in the end zone which ended as giant Crimson forward Eddie Davis fell on the ball for the score. Davis's chief assistant on the scoring play was Al Green, the man who had kicked the ball into the end zone...