Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stronger than it had all season. With a powerful motion, Feller fed the league-leading Yankees his old familiar assortment of stuff-sliders, fastballs, curves and change-ups. The Yankees got only one hit off him after the fourth inning, and Feller was still in there pitching at the end. The Indians won, 4-2, with Feller holding the fort until Teammate Vernon, back at first base, could unload a two-run homer in the eleventh inning. Feller's burial, it seemed, would have to be put off for a while; the rest of the Indians felt healthier...
...week's end, two powerful voices joined the counterattack. "Teachers are being intimidated," said the national Phi Beta Kappa society, "and students are being led to believe that colleges dare no longer engage in the disinterested pursuit of truth." The society warned local chapters to resist "such emotional pressure." Then Harvard University spoke...
...week opened, the market gave investors a bad scare. The Dow-Jones industrial average skidded to 161.60, right through the critical level that many a chartist thought would indicate a full-grown bear market. By such charts, the market should have kept going down. Instead, by week's end, it bounced right up again to 163.78. The market showed enough bounce, in fact, to make some Wall Streeters wonder whether, after months of sliding, it had finally reached its bottom. No one could yet say for sure, but some fence-sitting traders began to teeter towards the bull side...
Since war's end, many an impatient squawk has been sounded against the U.S. Military Government for failing to do "something" about Germany's cartels -though hardly anybody knew what the something should be. Last winter, a civilian committee headed by Federal Trade Commissioner Garland Ferguson trotted off to see if the squawking was justified. The group reported that...
...song called Baby, It's Cold Outside, which is already well established as a jukebox hit. Between the long, arid stretches of talk, Betty Garrett and Red Skelton supply some shorter sketches of acceptable slapstick. The rest of the show, including a razzle-dazzle water ballet at the end, lumbers along like an overdressed float in a Mardi Gras parade...