Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lieutenant, and after him a Captain, a Major and a Colonel all came up to see what the fuss was about. Sam was adamant. " 'E knocked it down. Reckon 'e picks it oop or it stays where it is-at me feet...
...places for the long winter evenings: Kate Smith, Bing Crosby, Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Charlie McCarthy. The Philharmonic had arranged to broadcast on tour; a hallowed hush awaited Arturo Toscanini next week in NBC's starchy Studio 8H. Rudy Vallée, Eddie Cantor and Al Jolson were major absentees. There was no newcomer with the mature charm of 1938's prize find, Information Please, but radio 1939 turned up an idea that threatens to sweep the nation like Bingo if the antigambling goblins don't get it first...
...wild & woolly West. Today rodeos are a big-time U. S. sport. They annually attract twice as many spectators as auto racing or track. In Texas rodeos are chasing baseball off the sandlots. They have a governing organization (Rodeo Association of America), a cowboys' union (Turtle Association),* a major-league circuit and a national champion...
...compete in the major-league circuit -the 100-odd rodeos sponsored by the R. A. A.-a cowboy must be a better-than-average bronc rider, calf roper, steer wrestler or steer rider. More than that, he must be willing to take a chance. A cowboy on the range gets around $40 a month-with "grub." A rodeo cowboy gets no salary at all. He pays his own traveling expenses, hotel bills, entrance fees (sometimes as much as $100 for one event). If he competes at calf roping, he has to pay the feed bill and transportation cost...
...chance to beat the Yankees. For precedent they pointed to 1914. In that brave year the Boston Braves, depending almost entirely on two brilliant pitchers (just as the Reds did this year), trounced the walloping Philadelphia Athletics, rated-with their hundred-thousand-dollar infield-the greatest team in major-league history (just as the Yankees are today). Such wishful fans cited the fact that, out of 34 World Series, 13 had been nabbed with just two pitchers winning the necessary four games. Only five years ago the famed Dean Brothers (Dizzy & Daffy...