Word: cobbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...death this week of Frederick A. Cobb, Labor M.P. for Brighouse, brought the Attlee government's precarious election majority in the House of Commons down to three votes. Since the election on Feb. 23, one other M.P. had died, another had resigned. If Labor loses two of the three districts in which by-elections must be held, its overall majority will...
...year-old East St. Louis-born Negro speedster who is being readied to play his first season in the majors. Southworth's positiveness stems from Jethroe's record with Montreal last season, where he broke the International League record by stealing 89 bases (seven less than Ty Cobb's modern major-league record of 96), batted a neat .326, second highest in the league...
...Some other paychecks considered good in their day: Joe DiMaggio's $90,000 last year, Babe Ruth's $80,000 in 1930-31, Ty Cobb's $70,000 in 1928, Honus Wagner...
BASEBALL: Babe Ruth (253 votes), Ty Cobb (116), Lou Gehrig...
...report." City Editor John Bogart's definition became even more famous: "When a man bites a dog, that is news." To gather and write the new "human interest" stories, the Sun corralled such topflight reporters as Jacob Riis, Arthur Brisbane, Richard Harding Davis, Will Irwin, Irvin S. Cobb and Frank Ward O'Malley...