Word: groves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...choice in April, the Tigers last week were rated 2-to-1. Another surprise has been the performance of Boston, under its new owner, Thomas Yawkey. For his team this year Mr. Yawkey had a rebuilt stadium and an almost completely new roster of players including famed Robert Moses Grove who was Mickey Cochrane's longtime battery mate on the Athletics. Without Cochrane, Grove's pitching has not been up to scratch. Even so the Red Sox, consistent tail-enders in their league for the last nine years, were last week in third place, two games ahead...
...Hubbell's margin of popularity was surpassed by that of Vernon ("Lefty") Gomez of the New York Yankees. Gomez' amazing record this season is 13 games won, 3 lost. The Gomez total in last week's poll was 84,712 to 38,327 for Robert Moses Grove...
...only color in his life is the mercurochrome he put on the fingers of Nicaraguan voters to prevent them from repeating at the polls. He was born on a small farm three miles west of Utica in western Pennsylvania, the summer home of his Presbyterian minister father.- In nearby Grove City (pop. 6.156), where his father had a pastorate and a professorship of Biblical Literature in tiny Grove City College, he grew up as any healthy, normal boy grows up in a U. S. small town. At Grove City College he played on a class basketball team, made good grades...
...kennels she led two of the saddest beasts in the world, the furrow-browed bitch Champion Sarah of Barchester and Champion Huntsman. Over they went to the house, at Myrtle Grove, where the last burglary was committed. Whiffling mournfully, the leashed hounds were led to a broken window. Champion Sarah suddenly threw up her head and howled. Almost instantly both hounds were scrambling on the trail. Red-faced, hot and excited. Mrs. Sadlier pounded along, her champions nearly pulling her arms out. Up a hill they raced, through copses and hedges and across fields. Dawn was just breaking...
...miles from Myrtle Grove Champion Huntsman ceased baying and threw back his head, trembling. Champion Sarah pulled away to the left...