Word: forgot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, bull-shouldered Freddie Mills, late of the R.A.F., went down six times before the punishing fists of U.S. light-heavyweight champion Gus Lesnevich. Six times Mills got up and almost beat Lesnevich's face out of shape. In the tenth, Freddie forgot to duck again; he got up at the count of nine, a helpless target. The referee stopped the fight...
Kleberg, Assault bolted through on the inside to take command. In the excitement of riding his first Derby, Mehrtens forgot to stop whipping. Assault flashed under the wire all by himself, an eight-length winner of the richest Derby ever (first-place money...
...With particular anguish, they can remember the time Hack Wilson was hit on the head by a fly ball while sassing the bleachers; the time three Dodgers tried to slide into the same base at the same time; the time Babe Herman's pants caught fire because he forgot to douse his cigar before putting it in his pocket...
Lord Boswell's stablemate, Knockdown, is a big, gawky fellow. His Negro groom calls him "Big Foot Hoss," and swears he is thoroughly "gentlemanfied." He got out in front in the $100.000 Santa" Anita Derby last winter and forgot to quit, even though his owner wanted another of her nags, Star Pilot, to win. Knockdown did it again last week in a nine-furlong workout against Star Pilot (who had already won purses totaling $187,385). Gawky Knockdown was running easily at the finish in 1:56. Reluctantly Elizabeth Arden scratched Star Pilot as a Derby starter, and withdrew...
After a lofty resolve to limit advertising to the bare mention of a sponsor's name, radio forgot its good resolution, went after advertising that has multiplied radio's receipts 60 times since 1927. Programming was concentrated in network headquarters, control and responsibility abdicated to a small group of advertisers. Says Siepmann: public service continued to diminish while profits soared. Example: in 1944, radio's net return before taxes ($90,000,000) was more than double the depreciated value of all its tangible property...