Word: chunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could leave the kids while the game was on. As a gag, he gave away live ducks, chickens and pigs. When it looked as though one of his pitchers, Don Black, might have to give up baseball after an injury, Veeck shocked some minority stockholders by giving him a chunk of the receipts from one of Cleveland's games-a handsome...
Tanaka Was Superb. Morison, another breed of sea dog entirely, is rapidly but thoroughly chewing on the bigger chunk (14 projected volumes) that he has bitten off. To judge from the first five, Morison's history may well be the permanent hull which future workmen will occasionally caulk but never have to dismantle. Because "he has had full access to captured enemy documents and has used them with imaginative skill as well as care, his accounts of battle action have a quality of two-sidedness which dissolves crude jingoism. In Coral Sea and Guadalcanal, as in his three earlier...
...When Molotov visited the White House, "one of the valets was quite astounded ... to find inside [his suitcase] a large chunk of black bread, a roll of sausage and a pistol...
...been the reduction in the return on investment, for the rate of interest has been declining over a long period. Harvard suffered no serious drop in its total return on investment last year, but there remains the danger that the recession may suddenly worsen and thus take a bigger chunk out of investment income. However, the University takes comfort in its continued conservative investment policy. Harvard's capital is much safer than that of schools whose need for higher returns has made them switch to more risky investments...
...believe that man and his earthly home are unique n the universe. Collisions or near-collisions between stars must be excessively rare. If it takes such a cosmic catastrophe ;o produce a planetary system, there is a good chance that man's earth may be the only chunk of matter with proper conditions for life to develop...