Word: ivar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patrick's Day, Mrs. Berger has a recipe for cooking nettles. Ireland's patron saint is said to have "blessed this prickly plant which we despise or don't even recognize as it grows around us . . . He had known it by its romantic name of Ivar's Daughter, and he blessed it as useful to man and beast. Gather young nettles for yourself in March of early spring. By all means wear gloves. Serve them as fresh vegetables...
...Amherst ninth, Captain Ivar Rosendale opened with a single and went to second on an infield out. Bill Genovese popped out but John McGrath kept the rally going with a single to center, scoring Rosendale with Amherst's fourth run. Dave Gold got a life on Dunn's second error and at this point Godin was called...
...Jeff lineup includes six seasoned men who played for McInnis, including hard-hitting Captain Ivar Rosendale, who has batted in 12 runs. Left-hander Charlie Murphy, Amherst's top hurler with a 4-1 record, will pitch, which means that John Caulfield and Herb Neal will probably play left and right fields with a southpaw on the mound...
Telephones & Targets. Wenner-Gren's telephone deal was almost as involved as the financial matchwork conceived by his late countryman Ivar Kreuger. Since Sweden's tight currency controls will not let Wenner-Gren export more than 2,200 kroner ($600) a month, he had to make the deal through a swap...
...with movies, got into balloon-blowing by way of the "everlasting match." The match, which could be struck 600 times, had been invented in 1931 by Dr. Ferdinand Ringer, a Viennese chemist. It was bought up for $400,000-and filed away-by the late match king, Ivar Kreuger. Subsequently, Dr. Ringer came to the U.S., and when a federal court broke up the remnants of Kreuger's old cartel in 1946, the match was again available...