Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...performance. But the Dodgers would have none of it; as soon as the Braves gave them some runs, they gave them right back. Pitchers came and went. Even Brooklyn's big Don Newcombe beat a disorderly retreat. Almost reluctantly, the Braves went out in front in the eighth inning. Leftfielder Bobby Thomson promptly put an end to that rally by thoughtlessly trying to steal home. Apoplectic over this final foolishness, Manager Fred Haney fined Bobby $100. Apparently he did not think it worth while to beef that Bobby was probably safe in spite of himself. Dodger Catcher Campanella...
...problem: how to compete effectively against both their own industry's giants and the growing inroads made by trucks and airlines. Last week the bull session grew into something more solid. The roads were talking merger, as equal partners in a single big line that would become the eighth biggest in the U.S., with 4,092 miles of railroad between New York and Chicago (see map), assets approaching $1 billion, and operating revenues of $300 million annually...
...only overt illness or accident, but the intangible factor of emotional stress suffered by a woman between the eighth and twelfth weeks of pregnancy may be a precipitating factor in causing harelip and cleft-palate defects, two New Jersey researchers report in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Drs. Lyon P. Strean and Lyndon A. Peer studied 228 cases of cleft palate at Newark's Hospital of St. Barnabas, 40% among first-born children. Going back over the mothers' experiences during the critical weeks of pregnancy-when the two halves of the upper jaw normally fuse in the palatal arch...
Young Don Carlo, third Prince of Venosa, eighth Count of Consa, 15th Lord of Gesualdo, etc., etc., was content with the carefree luxury that befell his lot as a second son. He rarely went home to his small and dull town of Venosa, instead lived in nearby Naples, gathered the finest Renaissance musicians and poets around him, and himself became famed as a lutanist and singer. Of an evening, he would put to sea with one of his poet friends, and spend the night improvising songs and madrigals. He might have sung away his whole life, but his elder brother...
FAIR TRADE LAW has been knocked out in Colorado, eighth state to ban price-fixing agreements. State Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional the clause requiring retailers who do not sign price-fixing agreements with manufacturer to charge Fair Trade prices...