Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reserve for a fall term course, last time he'd tried. The sun was hot through his wool jacket, and the new grass was coming softly through the raked brown earth. The steps of Widener were wide and white, he thought, starting up--in all the years, though, he hadn't learned a satisfactory way to climb them. Too low, and yet to much set-back for two-at-a-time, but he arrived at the top, and started to push in. Passing the man in the cage he stopped; it reminded him of coming out again, with the book...
...which the left fielder made a great catch after a long run. "It was one of the longest hits I've seen all year, "said Dolph Samborski last night, "and would certainly have made the score 3 to 1 in our favour if it hadn't been caught...
...three weeks, the mighty hitter of the St. Louis Cardinals hadn't been able to hit. Though not overly superstitious by nature, Musial began spitting over his left shoulder and looking for good-luck hairpins in hotel lobbies. That didn't help. Said he, desperately, "I've had the whole team advising me, and I all but take the bat to bed with me." His batting average sagged...
...facts behind the story were something else again, too. Oh, the story was all true, said Abel Green-in the sense that he hadn't made it all up. But the story of Marshall Field's "offer," which Variety had attributed to "the Chicago Sun syndicate's spokesman," had actually come from Winchell himself. Had there really been an offer? Said Harry Baker, head of Marshall Field's Chicago Sun syndicate: yes, he'd had a chat with Winchell-at the request of a pal of Winchell's. "I've given no thought...
Once, at an Air Transport Association meeting, Eastern Air Lines President Eddie Rickenbacker complained that he hadn't been informed of certain matters. Patterson snapped: "If you'd quit sitting on a life raft in the Pacific all your life you'd understand these things. We discussed them at our last meeting." Rickenbacker whipped back: "Yes, and it's little sonovabitches like you that make me wish I was back there...