Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jersey, 84 cases were reported since the beginning of August. Health officers from the entire State were mobilized. Equipment was concentrated at Bergen County's isolation hospital, Bergen Pines. In Hackensack, swimming pools were closed...
...best amateur golfers in the U.S. include a New Jersey printer named Billy Dear, Patty Berg's kid brother Herman, onetime world's No. 1 Tennist Ellsworth Vines and hard-boiled Jim Oleska, a Brooklyn cop with a cross-handed grip. Billy Dear was out of play last week because Mrs. Dear is expecting a little Dear this week. The rest of these low-scorers and 146 others who survived sectional qualifying tests met in Omaha for the 45th, most upsetting and least sportsmanlike U.S. Amateur golf championship...
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Columbia). There is hell to pay when Celestial Messenger No. 7013 (Edward Everett Horton) returns to heaven with the soul of a prize fighter (Robert Montgomery) snatched from his private plane before it crashed to earth in "a place called New Jersey." No. 7013, a green and sentimental hand, wanted to spare the fighter the pain of crashing. But The Book says that the fighter is scheduled to live for 50 more years, meantime becoming world's heavyweight champion. He would have survived the crash; he must be returned to his earthly body...
...almost exactly the same instant on the sleek turf courts of the Sea Bright Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club in New Jersey, two different linesmen, on two different courts, cried "Out!" Both balls were hit on match points. One was struck by Don McNeill, national champion, ranked No. 1 by virtue of his victory in the singles on Forest Hills grass courts last year; the other by Frank Parker, national clay court champion, who has won eight of the nine hard-court tournaments he has played in this year...
Fonetix. In New Jersey, the Liquor Control Department got a complaint about "to meni yung womens skriming all nights." It pleaded: "All I wanted is more reasonable much more gwiter that we culd stay in our own haus and having a little of sliping. ... I hope you make my wish satisfatorelis...