Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old Charlie Root, who pitched the pennant-clinching game against the Cardinals. Others hailed big Bill Lee, winner of 22 games this season, who pitched on four successive days last week; Dizzy Dean who, even with his sore arm, beat the Pirates in the first game of their crucial series just before the final series in St. Louis; Manager Gabby Hartnett who, knowing Dizzy Dean's love for dramatic spots, smartly selected him to pitch the crucial game, then next day socked the homer that put the Cubs in first place; and Owner Philip K. Wrigley, who selected...
...Army Staff had recently been anxious to join the French & British Army Staffs in conversations about how joint action could be taken against Germany. Although repeatedly complaining that the Red Army had not been invited to sit in, the Soviet Commissar answered at no time during the week the crucial question of whether Czechoslovakia, if attacked by Germany, could count in any case on Russian aid. Up to now Maxim Litvinoff has for many years made all important declarations of Soviet foreign policy, but as he lingered in Geneva last week Dictator Joseph Stalin jumped into the game. Abruptly, Moscow...
...mance between a homespun football coach (George Murphy) and the Governor's amiable secretary (Marjorie Weaver). Typical shot: Gabby Harrigan, having agreed to let the outcome of his Senatorial race depend on the big game gloomily watching State's fabulously effective girl dropkicker (Joan Davis) miss a crucial field goal...
Then there was the Princeton game, the game before the Cadet headache. It was gridiron justice that Vernon Struck, Harvard's great spinning back from Contralia, Illinois, should wipe out all memories of missing the crucial point at Yale the year before by playing a truly sensational game to lead the team to a 34-6 victory...
...graduation of Alex Kevorkian, man-mountain tackle, is not as crucial as at first appears, for Tom Healey, 205-pound baseball pitcher, lacks only experience to become a steady fixture. Spring practice proved that the other tackle position will be no problem with Mose Hallett as a reliable understudy to Ken Booth, who has for three years proved himself as smart and steady a tackle player as exists in the east...