Word: combs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite such restrictions, the winter leagues manage to comb the majors for all the talent they can get. This month, as the southern season got under way, a traveling ball fan could recognize familiar names. The Yankees' Willie Miranda and the Senators' Con Marrero were playing for Cuba's Almendares. The White Sox's Chico Carrasquel was in Caracas. In Santurce, P.R., fans were being treated to the antics of the Giants' incomparable Willie Mays...
...effort to ease the minds of the anxious, Crimeds intend to comb the College for translations of the texts. Entries should be turned in at the CRIMSON building at 14 Plympton St., in envelopes marked "Lampoon Parody...
Just think--our very own pocket comb absolutely free! This magnanimous benefaction, unfortunately, appears to be the only offer which does not "involve a small purchase"--a $50 bicycle, for example...
...careful reading of either the list or the book shows that to obtain the comb one must make a small purchase (twenty-nine cents, in itself representing a twenty cent saving on a common need). There are, however, two offers which do not "involve a small purchase" at all: one is good for a suit pressing job and another for the development of any roll of films. The required purchases are all of items normally bought by many Harvard students...
When he took office after an era of openhanded public spending, Mexico's President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines suspended all government contracts to comb them for waste and graft. Construction industries soon felt the pinch and the whole economy slowed down. In 1953, output fell, the foreign-trade deficit rose one-third, and nearly all employers laid off help. Last week, faced by a worsening business recession, the President announced that he would shelve austerity and spend a record $400 million this year on pump-priming public works...