Word: marylands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barometer. Missouri (pop. 3,800,000) is the most populous of the political border states (Oklahoma, 2,170,000; Kentucky, 2,730,000; West Virginia, 1,755,000; Maryland, 2,100,000; Delaware, 281,000). In every Presidential election since 1904 Missouri has voted for the winner. The pundits last week scrutinized closely the Missouri score...
...ever gathered to do homage to a baseball veteran. They were the members of his personally picked, alltime, all-star team: George Sisler, "the greatest first baseman ever" (now a Brooklyn Dodgers scout); Eddie Collins, second base (Boston Red Sox general manager); Frank ("Home Run") Baker, third base (Maryland farmer); Honus Wagner, shortstop (Pittsburgh Pirates coach); Bill Dickey, catcher (U.S. Navy); Lefty Grove, pitcher (Maryland coupon clipper); Walter Johnson, pitcher (Maryland farmer); Tris Speaker, center field (Cleveland wine distributer); and George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, right field (who lives on annuities in Manhattan). Absent were Lieut. Commander Mickey Cochrane, catcher...
...these sects was the Brethren, founded (1708) by Alexander Mack in Germany. Under Peter Becker, the Brethren migrated in mass to America in 1719. Most of them farm in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia, Maryland. Few sects are more respected...
...woods. Recent trouble spots: 1) the District of Columbia, where three people, all bitten outside the District, have died of the disease; 2) Philadelphia, with five cases, one of whom caught the fever while picking ticks off his pet dog; 3) Deale and Shadyside (combined pop. 300), in Maryland's Ann Arundel County, where two people have died and three others have caught Rocky Mountain spotted fever...
...teens, Billy went to a school run by Benedictine monks in Cullman, Alabama. When he began to think seriously of studying for the priesthood, his horrified father rushed him off to St. Mary's in Maryland (B.A.) and to Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. Just before Billy got his M.D., his father died. Billy discarded the idea of medicine when a Philadelphia friend bought a theater. Billy became manager...