Word: fan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before last week's World Series many a baseball fan, particularly in Cincinnati, thought the Reds had a chance to beat the Yankees. For precedent they pointed to 1914. In that brave year the Boston Braves, depending almost entirely on two brilliant pitchers (just as the Reds did this year), trounced the walloping Philadelphia Athletics, rated-with their hundred-thousand-dollar infield-the greatest team in major-league history (just as the Yankees are today). Such wishful fans cited the fact that, out of 34 World Series, 13 had been nabbed with just two pitchers winning the necessary four...
...motor-driven fan for removing foam from beer...
...taken from the finger tip of a cancer suspect. The blood is dissolved in a small amount of lukewarm sterile water, mixed with copper chloride and spread on a glass microscope slide to crystallize. Healthy blood forms a green crystal pattern which, under a microscope, looks like a delicate, fan-shaped palm leaf. But in cancerous blood some unknown chemical forms a pattern of scattered, double-wing bow ties. In 1,000 trials on known cancer victims, said Drs. Pfeiffer and Miley, the copper test was 80% accurate...
With critics who compare his slick, sterilized landscapes to picture postcards, fan decorations and candy-box covers, Artist Nichols has long waged dubious battle through a stream of open letters. Sample Nichols rebuke: "I still maintain that your reference to my tempera looking 'like a candy-box' is unfair to designers in the graphic arts. . . . Had you said that my painting looked like a bad candy-box cover I would not have objected...
...McClure Newspaper Syndicate last January. It now appears in New York City, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, St. Louis and many another large city. Some of them have Superman clubs; in others youngsters have taken to wearing Superman capes and carrying shields. In Milwaukee one enthusiastic young Superman fan jumped off the roof of his house and survived...