Word: handedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Nizam prefers to receive rather than give. To his last birthday party he invited 1,156 Hyderabadis to dinner. Each one paid, according to the established custom, a door fee in gold and silver worth $50. The total take, $57,800, would pay his personal food bill for 395...
Dogged, deliberate Quist beat the erratic No. 2 Czech, Vladimir Cernik, with little trouble, 6-2, 13-11, 6-0. Then wiry little Billy Sidwell, 28, went up against Jaroslav Drobny, 27, Europe's best. Billy's backhand was in perfect control, and he tantalized the left-handed...
Maxwell House has resorted to a human stooge who tries, unsuccessfully, to balance six bags (the product's publicized blends) on his palm. When he fails, he is handed a can of Maxwell House with the triumphant assurance that all the blends are perfectly balanced in the can.
For twelve months lean, hard-bitten Charles M. White, president of Republic Steel Corp., has been playing two-handed poker for gigantic stakes. His opponent: War Assets Administrator Jess Larson. The stakes: the Government's $28 million Cleveland blast furnace and coke plant, one of the world's...
Two squadrons of Yak fighters droned over the city in formation, scaring Berliners. The four powers had agreed that there would be no formation flying over Berlin or over the Western air corridors. At the four-power Air Safety Center, the lone Russian official, who was poring over a magazine...