Word: groves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sank the Spanish fleet at Manila. In his 49 years in Philadelphia he won nine pennants (the last in 1931) and five World Series, trained a roster of greats whose names still make old fans' eyes gleam-Rube Waddell, Chief Bender, Frank ("Home Run") Baker, Eddie Collins, Lefty Grove, Mickey Cochrane, Jimmy Foxx, Al Simmons...
...Litchfield, Conn., Grove City, Pa. and Chino, Calif...
...file an indignant complaint: "three Grumman-type fighters" buzzed their plane as they were passing over Dover, Del. Another complaint soon followed : the captain of an Eastern Air Lines Constellation reported that a Navy fighter howled toward his ship "on a collision course" as it was passing near Willow Grove, Pa. and did not veer off until it was only 150 yards away...
Within a Budding Grove. All these arguments are plausible enough, but they cannot hold soup when the pro-beards come into action. Beavered Irishmen, for example, have always insisted that a beard is much handier and more absorbent than a table napkin (Author Reynolds concedes that his source for this is an English historian). Similarly, the 19th Century French Romantics demonstrated beyond doubt that by growing a broad enough beard a man could wear the same shirt collar for months on end. Moreover, as one authority has estimated, a bearded man could learn seven languages in the time spent...
...High. Indianapolis. Gresham Glen Edward of 210 Highland Avenue, Highland Park Mich.; Highland Park High, Osnes. David Marvin of 1530 Wellesley Drive Detroit: Cranbrook School Bloomfield Hills. Mich Piehl, DeWayne Jorvian of Box 42. RR No. 2 St. Joseph, Mtch; St. Joseph High Stegman Anthony Edward of 2882 Oak Grove Drive, Poatiac Mtch.: Catholic Central High Detroit...