Word: high
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...players had less reason to exult. A few days before the merger, Notre Dame's great end, Leon Hart, observed that he would be willing to play professional football for $25,000 a season. At week's end, Arthur McBride, chief owner of the A.A.C.'s high-stepping Cleveland Browns put the new picture in focus: "Some . . . players who got $10,000 and $12,000 this year will be playing for half that-or less-next season...
Auctions are apt to produce some bargains as well as some fantastically high prices, but the "anonymous" Madonna and Child recently knocked down at a Manhattan auction for $1,200 seemed to be one of the biggest bargains in auction history...
...something that people would buy in a Christmas card. Conway's Mother and Child lacked even that advantage; it was an all-but-indecipherable tangle of syrupy colors and tricky, scratch-and-patch textures without visible sentiment of any kind. Conway, who golfs about as well (in the high 70s) as he paints, had clearly taken great pains to scramble his prizewinner. Painting, he says, is like golfing: "Hitting the ball for miles and miles to try to get it into that little hole...
...costs to wage all-out propaganda war against President Truman's national health insurance program: in eight months, the American Medical Association's press-agents had spent a whopping $1,394,000. But to the 3,942 A.M.A. members gathered in Washington, no price seemed too high to fight off the threat of socialized medicine. So the A.M.A. voted, for the first time in its' 102-year history, to levy dues ($25 a year) on its members...
...heavy casualties, said Dr. Moyer, need not be. In the first place, four-fifths of the nation's gastric cancer victims are suitable cases, for surgery. If operated on in time, there would be high hope for the majority of them. But the surgery available in most parts of the country is not good enough: although half the patients now die, there are "islands" in this sea of mortality where only one patient out of 20 dies. Among such islands: the Mayo Clinic, University of Minnesota Hospital and Manhattan's Memorial Hospital...