Word: ll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against such seasoned competitors you can't make any mistakes, and Henry's game is not yet perfect. "But give him a little more time and he'll be able to beat any player in Massachusetts," says Barnaby...
...chaplain stepped into a ring one night to make his point. He called for challengers. The boys of Battery D shoved Tommy Murphy into the ring. The chaplain held his finger in front of his own nose. "You try to hit it, son," he said. "I'll just show you what clean living and coordination do for you." With studied innocence, Tommy made a wild swing which the well coordinated chaplain easily ducked. "See?" said the chaplain. "Try again." Tommy almost turned himself inside out, missing with another swing. "Try once more," said the chaplain patronizingly. So Tommy...
...They got only $9. A few days later Hoodlum Godbey was captured. Prosecutor Earl Pruet, a vigorous and sarcastic lawyer, pointed out to the court that Godbey was a fifth offender, and demanded a stiff sentence for him. Godbey got 35 years, and swore to Pruet: "I'll kill you if it's the last thing I ever...
...Take a good look at this man, boys," said Dr. William C. Gorgas to his staff as they performed an autoosy on a Panama Canal construction worker in 1905. "It's the last case of yellow fever you'll ever see. There'll be no more deaths from this cause in Panama." So thoroughly had General Gorgas stamped out Aëdes aegypti mosquitoes and the fever they carry, that his prediction lasted for about 44 years...
...marry out of your Church, or you'll regret it all your life." So all Roman Catholic priests and many Protestant ministers warn their flocks. But most young people in love believe that love will conquer everything-including church dogma, ritual and customs...