Word: dales
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...where West Point's once-beaten basketball team (upset by Pennsylvania) had it out with once-beaten Navy (who lost only to Bainbridge Naval Training Station). Both teams suffered first-half jitters; both succeeded with the same basic tactics-keep the No. 1 scorers, Army's flashy Dale Hall and Navy's nimble Adrian Back, out of range...
Dogface Soldier was written in 1942 by two Long Beach, N.Y. soldiers, both strangers to Tin Pan Alley : Corporal Bert Gold, 27, onetime Manhattan movie-theater manager, now at Dale Mabry Field, Fla., and Lieut. Ken Hart, an ex-New York Times correspondent with the A.A.F. in Panama. Composer Gold confesses: "I banged out the theme with one finger and we called in a professional to do the arrangement. He was the man with the education and the man who got the $5." Technically, he characterizes his work as "a beat-up, old-fashioned style, spontaneous-sounding ballad...
...games since February 1943, hinges on peak physical shape to go with their maximum-sized home court (eight feet longer than Madison Square Garden's). Fast-finishing Army last week whirled by Pittsburgh (71-to-51), then dumped Rochester (79-to-42). Their captain (and football halfback), Dale Hall, leading scorer in the East last season, has flicked in no less than 142 points in ten games, to boost his team's scoring average to 60.9 against their opponents...
Late in the morning, on the lawn where the children had played, the crowd began to gather. Diplomats had been told to leave their frock coats at home, and did. Only two top hats were visible: on Charles M. Dale, a Governor (New Hampshire), and on George Jessel, a comedian. The crowd came in overcoats and galoshes, sloshed about in mud and slush...
...Enid, Okla. (pop. 28,081), a smart grain dealer, Dale H. Johnson, bought mung seeds, begged the skeptical farmers in Garfield County near the Oklahoma Panhandle to plant a test crop. Johnson believed that the beans could be seeded, grown and harvested during the three to four months between the end of the winter wheat harvest and the beginning of fall planting for next season's wheat. He was right. The beans grow well when there is sufficient rainfall in late summer...