Word: martins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Higher Learning. In Olympia, Wash., St. Martin's College devoted its regular weekly science seminar to a new subject: "The mathematical analysis of a crap game...
...afternoon session Braves fans will be able to see Torgeson give demonstrations on hitting and bunting. Barrett and Martin will continue by showing proper pitching methods...
Hill Southworth, Earl Torgeson, Red Barrott, and Ray Martin will appear with McInnis when they speak before high school diamond coaches at the Boston Braves Baseball Clinic...
...Rockefeller back in 1939, McDonnell had "nothing but his briefcase." Laurance, the third son of John D. Jr., had money. He also had a taste for "helicopters and such things," and he liked the blueprints showed him by McDonnell, a crack designer who had once worked for Glenn L. Martin. When they parted, McDonnell had $40,000 of good Rockefeller cash and Rockefeller had 4,000 shares of highly speculative preferred stock. The deal helped McDonnell to build his second-floor engineering office into St. Louis' McDonnell Aircraft Corp., which during the war made...
...matter what a man does for a living, getting old may come to him one day as a terrible shock, Manhattan Geriatrist Martin Gumpert, 51, told the gerontologists. "The recognition of aging," Gumpert explained, "is perhaps the most profound shock of our life span-next to dying." He advised patients to develop intellectual curiosity and independence, and "a well-cultivated faculty of giving up the old and assimilating the new." Doctors, Gumpert said, should treat the "shock" of aging as carefully as any other form of shock. A patient who is getting on should be made to understand that...