Word: groves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lord Inverchapel, successor to Halifax, got close to the earth in Iowa. A farm boy who had met him in Washington invited him out home some time; the Ambassador took him up on it. For three days he bunked (in the downstairs bedroom) at a farm outside Eagle Grove, rode tractors, weeded strawberries, fed on meat and potatoes and vegetables and pie, dried the dishes. After he left for Washington, the Eagle Grove Eagle came out with the first extra in its history, ran six pictures of him in four pages...
...devastating blocking back, a short stubby character weighing more than 200 pounds despite his five-foot-seven-inch stature, reputed as an outstanding blocker and backer-up. Sullivan, fullback of the 1942 eleven which crushed Boston College, 55 to 12, in the famous game that preceded the Cocoanut Grove disaster, shares honors at the bucking spot with Veto Kissel, of last year's Crusader eleven...
...your next door neighbor in Palestine: the winding and tortuous lanes that are the streets of Jericho and Beersheba; the broad landscaped boulevards of Tel Aviv; the picturesque and "perfumed" Arab Markets in the "Old City"; the Hospital and Hebrew University that overlook the New Jerusalem; an orange grove pushing back the desert; an Arab fellah hurrying his sheep to the side of the road to let a convey of British tanks...
...since Lefty Grove led Connie Mack's last great Philadelphia team to the 1931 pennant has an American League pitcher won 30 games in a season. Last week, with 1946 baseball at the three-quarter mark, the goal of all major-league pitchers was within the reach of not one, but three pitchers...
...treatment brings together what has been learned from such disasters as Boston's 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire and from wartime experience with men burned aboard ships and planes. It was described in Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics by Dr. Robert Elman, husky, 49-year-old surgery professor in Washington University's Medical School, St. Louis...