Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Alvin Jacob ("Jake") Powell, 39, rough & tumble onetime outfielder for the New York Yankees and Washington Senators; by his own hand (automatic pistol); in a Washington police station while being questioned about bad checks. Powell reached his peak in the 1936 World Series when he hit .455, went into a permanent slump four years later after he crashed head-on into a wall while chasing a fly ball...
...General Jacob L. Devers, chief of Army Field Forces, had a comforting word for prospective draftees. The General promised that they would be treated as persons "of individual dignity and feelings, entitled to courtesy and consideration"-and hear no profanity from their sergeants...
Died. Major Jacob Daniel ("Japie") Smuts, 42, modest, gold-mining son of Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, who once served as his father's aide-de-camp; of meningitis; in Johannesburg, South Africa...
...After all, you've got to have some outlet," said Jacob Hauser, voicing the cry of many a man smothered in a big city. Mr. Hauser is a poet. Like many another poet, he is-or was-unpublished...
...compiling it, Assistant Professor Jacob Scher, helped by three Chicago Tribune staffers, took a firm stand against hackneyed journalese. Sample warning: "Regardless of the gravity of an accident, don't 'rush' an ambulance to the scene. Don't 'dispatch' one, either. Just 'send' one. Don't 'rush' the victims to a hospital. Just 'take' them...