Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvest. Since war's end, fans had been wondering impatiently when baseball's new crop of talent would be reaped. As the season neared its mid-point they had their answer. Dino Restelli was the most sensational of a bumper crop of rookies who had had to go to war before becoming big-leaguers...
Campbell's formal training consists of one course in astronomy in his senior year in high school; he did not go to college. But he had so much enthusiasm for astronomy that when he was offered a job as "dome assistant" at the observatory a year later (1899), he jumped at the chance. It was a sort of clerk's job, calling for long hours of jotting down star observations. Leon Campbell soon impressed his superiors with his independent work, and in 1905 he was made a regular member of the observatory staff...
...this argument Protestants have their answer. Replied the weekly Christian Century to America: "The restrictions upon Protestants in Spain are much more drastic and far-reaching than the restrictions upon Roman Catholics in Sweden. But," the Century added thoughtfully, "it is well that the similarities, as far as they go, should be cited ... A vestige of ... medieval theory and practice remains . . . [weaving] a shoddy strand into the fabric of the Protestant argument for religious liberty...
Bermúdez' hunch was that Mexican oil reserves would be needed by the U.S. in case of another war. But most U.S. companies have refused to go back under the poor terms offered by Pemex, the government oil monopoly. Hat in hand, Bermúdez has had to ask the U.S. to put up $200 million for an oil development loan...
...Maximum penalty: $500 fine for first offense, up to $2,000 for any subsequent one. If the company is found guilty, and if it is unable to win a reversal, Standard might just as well go out of business...