Word: diamonditis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile Adolph Samborski's strong Yardling nine meets the Jumbo yearling crop in a contest to be played at the Medford diamond at three o'clock. Mort Waldstein, pitcher, and Bill Barnes, first baseman, stand out on a well-balanced squad...
...Adonis (bootlegging), Meyer Lansky (industrial rackets) and Jimmy Hines (politics), played golf at swank Hot Springs, Ark., ended around 1935. Dead was Gangster Vannie Higgins, who had owned and piloted his own airplane. Bootlegger Frankie Yale (Uale), bumped off, had been given a $50,000 funeral. Gunman Legs Diamond had at last been rubbed out, and his flowerlike Kiki Roberts, who had danced in Ziegfeld's Follies, had gone back to dancing in a roadhouse for a living. In 1935 organized crime appeared to have hit the skids...
...machine-tool industry is no monster economic unit. In a big year like 1937 it may gross $200,000,000, about as much as the automobile industry (cars and trucks) may gross in a month. When other industry stagnates, it stagnates too, and its grey-haired veterans switch their diamond-studded long-service pins from their overalls to the lapels of their best blue suits. The companies that make machine tools are as individualistic as their workmen. Most of them started as small family enterprises, and have not far outgrown that stage. Because of their independence...
Other sports will probably claim about a dozen football possibilities. Gene Lovett, Burgie Ayres, Charley Spreyer, and Ed Buckley are upperclassmen certain to remain with the baseball squad; and yearlings Calel Loring, Bill Barnes, Mort Waldstein, and Ray Guild are occupied with the diamond sport and with track...
Stepping stones--that was what Emerson called every bad thing. He had a philosophy that falls strangely on our ears today: there is an Over-Soul, and all Nature and every man are parts of it, one of the millions of facets of a perfect, diamond-like gem. And so all the obstacles and terrors of the world are nothing more than a game, played by the Over-Soul with itself. But it is not a futile, or an un-moral game; its object is to improve and refine mankind in the the heat of the struggle. It's hard...