Word: game
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Often she has had the closing program spot, which might mean waiting until the end of an extra-inning night baseball game. Once, ready and made-up at 8 p.m., she went on the air sometime after midnight. "If the image was wobbly it wasn't because of bad transmission," she says. "It was just my make-up blurring." Another night a "deuce" (2,000-watt spotlight) exploded while she was singing a number called Lovers' Gold. Showered by shattered glass from the smoking, spluttering lamp, Bargy didn't miss a single tremulous note. Besides poise...
Watching the first night football game ever played in San Francisco's Kezar Stadium (before 40,000 spectators), Sports Editor Vernon ("Curley") Grieve of Hearst's Examiner got so excited last week that he thought he heard voices. Wrote Grieve: "When Mayor Elmer G. Robinson turned on the floodlights ... a huge gasp escaped from the throng and it rolled upward like escaped steam from a huge boiler. It was then-unanimously-that the crowd mumbled: 'This is grand. This is what we need and want...
Jesse found that if he cut up his big calendar and pasted the numbers on bits of cardboard, he could teach beginners to read and count while pretending to be playing a game. He taught them "how to measure a field and figure the number of acres, how to figure the number of bushels in a wagon bed [or a] corn bin." Soon farmers from all over the valley, and from Chicken Creek and Unknown, too, began asking his pupils to measure their fields and count their bushels for them...
...foreign investors face currency difficulties, "run the risk of not being able to repatriate [their] capital," for the chance of profits which are smaller than in the U.S. It was "not surprising" that since the end of the war, private international finance has been almost nonexistent. Said Istel: "The game is not worth the candle...
...Louis victory and a Brooklyn defeat gave the Cardinals a commanding game-and-a-half National League lead yesterday. Harry Brecheen pitched and batted the Cards to a 6 to 1 victory over the Chicago Cubs, with Johnny Schmitz the losing pitcher. In Brooklyn, the Phillies tumbled the Dodgers...