Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final analysis, it isn't the quality of a team's pitching that counts, nor its speed on the bases, nor its home ran power. The team that wins the pennant is the team that wins the most games. Shallowness in the pitching staffs of both the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers is easy for the merest novice to detect. Both teams have weak spots in the batting order and in the defensive lineups. But both teams have won more games than other clubs in their leagues...
Without this sense of contingency, "there isn't any springboard for theistic metaphysics * ...After all, how would one expect [traditional metaphysics] to soften up a monolithic materialist like H. G. Wells, or an anti-humanist like Picasso, or a happy naturalist like British Cosmologist Fred Hoyle...
...There. Absurdities to the civilian eye sometimes have a certain wild bureaucratic logic, such as the file in the basement called "the file of non-filed files"-a list of files that have been sent somewhere else. The Pentagon explains that it saves searching for a file that isn't there...
...gained. What Ike lost was divided up between New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey (16%), who announced last fall without qualification that he was an Ike man; Stassen (10%), who says he is also for the general; and California's Earl Warren (13%) who isn't saying...
...looked about the room thoughtfully, as if he always wanted to remember this precise minute of this particular day. Then he went on: "Now take Joe Louis. Maybe he needs money. But it's the crowds, it's being the champ he misses. This isn't no easy life. Man, there's temptation. You don't know what temptation. Temptation, it eats away a man's will power. Will power don't last forever, you know." Robinson, using his expressive hands, showed will power going, temptation growing. "That...