Word: gaff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old ex-minor leaguer, who won 24, lost 19 with Springfield of the Three-I League before retiring with a sore arm. The St. Louis Browns, the Cardinals and Detroit had liked his fast ball but labeled him too frail (150 lbs.) to stand the gaff. On Army beans, he has gained 20 lbs., and made a record that is sure to solve his postwar reconversion problem...
...Aeronautical Corp. is about to be orphaned again: for the sixth time in two years, it is faced with finding-or accepting-a new management. Reason: even Miracle Man Henry J. Kaiser whom the Navy persuaded to take over Brewster a year ago-without remuneration-could not stand the gaff...
...Prime Minister in a letter so gracious that Mr. Gladstone was quite pleased. When a general informed the Queen of an African victory but ventured to suggest further military reforms, Ponsonby reworded the Queen's furious reply into compliments on the victory (and a paragraph covering the unhappy gaff...
There is no other system quite as demanding as this in all the world of journalism-and subscribers often ask us how we find girls who can stand the gaff and shoulder the responsibility, and what kind of girls they are. So this week I thought I would introduce you to Content Peckham, one of the best researchers we've ever...
Though "time and change shall naught avail to break the friendships formed at Yale," friendships formed at Princeton apparently do not stand the gaff so well...