Word: filles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clarinet in a band, went on to a law degree, and then drifted into real estate. One day he found himself owner of both the New Haven Arena and the ice-hockey team that played there. Soon, with other arena owners, he was looking around for a sport to fill the house when his hockey team was on the road. The choice was basketball, a poor risk at the time, and Podoloff was elected president of the Basketball Association of America. The association, coughed along, and in 1949 became the N.B.A. The crowds had been staying away in busloads...
...death closed not only a career but an era. Gone was the last human link with the great Italian romantics, a man who had learned Verdi's last great works from Verdi himself. The world knows no musician to fill his place...
...week to plan a great new outpouring of American dollars for Israel. Before Feb. 28, said the Israel Bond Organization, it hoped to raise $20 million; before the end of 1957 it hoped to raise a total of $75 million designed to improve immigrant housing, speed up industrialization and "fill the gap in Israel's development budget created by the loss of other sources of economic aid [e.g., a slowdown of U.S. economic aid] during the present crisis...
...from the school will be recognized as the equivalent of one from any accredited Kansas high school. "The men must work for their grades," says he. "We have already flunked a few. We are not going to make a snap out of this or let it be something to fill in time...
...shot put, Jim Doty and Hank Abbott, both sophomores, must fill the vacuum left by the graduation of captain and record-holder Art Siler. Neither has shown up exceptionally well...