Word: diamonditis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...team, which last week pounded out a 5 to 1 victory over the Boston Navy Yard Marines, will face a team from the Coast Guard Receiving Station tomorrow. Southpaw Sid Greeley will probably start for the Crimson. The game begins at 3:15 o'clock on the main diamond at Soldiers Field
...Medalie, 60, Manhattan lawyer's lawyer, who gave Tom Dewey his first public job - that of assistant U.S. district attorney. The son of a rabbi, George Medalie worked his way through Columbia University, became a brilliant trial lawyer. As U.S. District Attorney he convicted the late Jack ("Legs") Diamond of running a still; in private practice, he won Diamond's freedom on a murder charge. Dewey and Medalie admire each other's legal talents. John Foster Dulles, 56, a tall, stooped, bespectacled Wall Street lawyer and impeccable Presbyterian, whose life work has been advising people on international...
...same time, Chief Crash Davis will field his B team against an invading squad from the Boston Marine Base. Sid Greeley, who last week shut out an ASTP team here with one hit, will probably start for the B team. This game will take place on the man diamond at Soldiers Field at 3:15 o'clock...
First assembling by the baseball diamond at 1:15 o'clock for final rehearsal, the Naval ROTC, V-12, Pre-Radar, Communications, Supply, Supply-Midshipmen, and WAVES outfits will be under the direction of Comdr. M. E. Paradise, USNR, who serves as Brigade Commander for the second consecutive year...
...pale and weedy Cambridge student then: a Boer-accented colonial, fresh from the schools of the Cape Colony, a grave and talented adolescent with a passion for reciting Prometheus Unbound, an enthusiasm for the Empire-building of Cecil Rhodes. From Cambridge he went back to the South Africa of diamond fields and booming gold mines, of growing friction between British and Boers, who had trekked northward from the Cape to the Transvaal to free their rude, patriarchal, Bible-reading lives of uitlander (foreign) rule...