Word: marylands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the Senators-pitched his last game 15 years ago. Babe Ruth-whose magnificent coordination had chalked up 713 home runs in 22 years with the Red Sox and Yankees-retired seven years ago. Yet both managed to squeeze into their old uniforms last week. Pig raising on his Maryland farm has kept Old Barney's weight down. Rigid diet (to make his old playing weight for his part in the movie, Pride of the Yankees} has pared some of the paunch the Babe had acquired since 1935 in easy living...
...graduate of Tufts in 1921, Sampson coached Maryland football in 1931-3 under Eddie Casey. Before that he was assistant to Lou Little at Columbia, and earlier coached football and basketball at Tufts and Medford High. He has been on the Herald for 13 years...
Asked whether he would help inprove the caliber of Maryland State officeholders by consenting to run for office in the House of Delegates, Author H. L Mencken loftily replied: "The only office I would consider is that of bishop...
...Hollywood, Paramount studios decided to do a picture titled Women of Aberdeen, glorifying the lives of dusty women workers at Maryland's explosive Army ordnance proving ground, chose for its star diminutive, peach-sundae-cheeked Cinemacutie Susan Hayward...
Under two of Franklin Roosevelt's pet agencies-the Budget Bureau and National Resources Planning Board-Congress lit a slow fire. A Senate Appropriations Subcommittee, headed by Millard E. Tydings of Maryland, reported that the agencies were rife with "ideologies and theories looking forward to greater Governmental expenditures and greater deficits during the post-war period." Said the subcommittee: "Such controversial matters (better termed 'propaganda') should not be sponsored at public expense...