Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world and its press were scarcely to be blamed for turning the most startling change of residence in history into an international guessing game. The British Government, which had been handed a magnificent trump card, had by confused handling of the affair, practically exchanged its trump for a useless joker...
Symphony in D for the Dodgers had much of the Dodgers' elusive, faunlike charm, and rated a place with such sporting music as Constant Lambert's Prizefight, Arthur Honegger's Rugby and Skating Rink, the ballets Card Game (Igor Stravinsky), Checkmate (Arthur Bliss...
...were two other innovations sponsored by Belmont's democratic young president: 1) free bus transportation from the Long Island end of New York's Independent subway line; 2) a tryout of the Daily Double (combined betting on the first and second races of the day's card), a workingman's dream of turning $2 into a four-door sedan...
...Yardling golfers for their second win of the season defeated the Andover six by a 8 to 1 margin. Art Tarlow led the Crimson field with an 81 card. Don Davis was elected the '41 captain before the game...
Four months ago Reader's Digest left its calling card in Latin America-a Spanish-language edition of 117,000 copies. To newsstands went 80,000 copies (10? a copy); to subscribers went 37,000 annual subscriptions ($1 a year), about half of them donated by good-neighborly U.S. readers. Included were 32 pages of ads-first in Reader's Digest-by such firms as Gillette Razor, General Motors, Parker Pen, Kellogg's Corn Flakes, big oil companies...