Word: caught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paste-up in last week's show was made by Arthur Dove in 1925. Entitled Grandmother, it consisted of a needlepoint embroidery, a few shingles, a page from the Bible, a pressed flower and fern. But, except among commercial artists (who have found it useful), the trick never caught on in the U.S. as it did in Europe...
...Crimson in Triumph Flashing" was caught on the needle and spinning aimlessly. The football team had that changed too or was it the same the same the same the record was still caught. Vag paced the room, listening to the familiar music rise and fall, over and over, like past years' Yale game hopes. Again he wondered, had the team changed or was it the same same same he jumped up and turned off the turntable. As soon as "Crimson in Triumph" had stopped spinning, he picked it up, centered it on a nail over the mantel, and pushed...
...minute, they saw what they were waiting for: a substantial-looking citizen approached and murmured a few words to Baldy. The bookie's eyes flicked to the tote board, caught the changing odds on the day's featured race-the $25,000 Fall Highweight Handicap. Then Baldy winked. No money had changed hands, but the substantial citizen had just made a substantial-and illegal...
Subtraction. The cream was off the boom for Burroughs Adding Machine Co. It cut the price of its $184 adding-subtracting machine to $155, the $135 model to $125. Burroughs said it was giving consumers the benefits of its production savings. But there was another cogent reason: Burroughs had caught up with the backlog on its lower-priced machines...
...ninth, the ball was slippery, and Barney was pressing. With the count three-and-two, the first batter swung at a pitch up around his neck. The second Giant popped a mile-high fly to First Baseman Gil Hodges, who wiped the rain from his face and caught it. Then Whitey Lockman, who had hit three home runs off Barney earlier in the season, stepped up. He got a piece of the ball, but it fouled off near the Dodger dugout. Looking up into the lights, Catcher Bruce Edwards thought he was "seeing dozens of baseballs coming down," but managed...