Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South Bend, Mantz began to let down for his approach to the field at Cleveland. His nose (and a compass he hadn't bothered to have accurately calibrated) brought him in over the finish line first. His speed: 435.6 m.p.h., which was 153 m.p.h. faster than Frank Fuller's 1939 record, the last time the race was held. In second place: Old Hand Jacqueline Cochran Odlurn, Bendix champ in 1938, also flying...
...have often been asked what Roosevelt thought of his presidential rivals. ... He thought Hoover a solemn defeatist with no consciousness of people as human beings. Alfred Landon, Roosevelt thought, was a nice fellow who didn't know much. He took an immediate liking to Willkie, and he hadn't expected to. ... For Dewey, Roosevelt had little respect. He expected him to make a bad campaign, and was surprised when he made an excellent...
...question of whether I should be hanged or given a medal. If people hadn't copied, it would have proved that the idea was no good. I still think it is good. But the idea has been sold short...
...estimate of the principals present and finally (and mainly) a series of bitter reflections on U.S. foreign policy. For that night Adamic decided that the Prime Minister would never accept the Adamic Plan-Two-Way Passage-or anything resembling it. The Churchill expression "was one of complex annoyance. ... He hadn't liked it at all. I was a bloody nuisance dragged in by F.D.R. and he had had to put up with me. This was implicit in his manner, integral with his whole personality. ... He muttered something I did not understand. His half-closed eyes squinted...
While American Leaguers edged up on the magic 30 games, the National League -which is traditionally famed for classy pitching-hadn't one pitcher who was a cinch...