Word: mid-august
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...written off as an also-ran in this year's American League pennant race. But, thanks to Pitcher Bob Feller and a pair of rookies, Lou Boudreau and Ray Mack, who made Cleveland's in field the hottest spot in baseball, the In dians found themselves, by mid-August, with a tight grip on first place...
Only a month ago Dr. Zinsser still went to his laboratory every day, jaunty and gay. But he knew the end was near. He was taking X-ray treatments, which did no good. In mid-August he went to Manhattan, entered world-famed Memorial Hospital under the care of his friend, Dr. Cornelius Packard Rhoads. Thirty-six hours before he died, Hans Zinsser lost consciousness...
...valley of the Po, through Italy's richest industrial area, swept in mid-August a proud Italian Army, bent on repulsing an imaginary "Red" (French) invasion. Suddenly, mysteriously, the maneuver ended. As suddenly, Hitler invaded Poland, the Allies declared war. Il Duce disappeared from public view. It was rumored that he had had a heart attack. Whether or not he was sick, his heart was certainly sore. After 17 years of martial preparation for the second World War, he had been forced by his generals to realize that whether or not Italy wanted to fight, Italy could not fight...
...Chinese answer to this drive was a surprise attack on the flimsy Japanese garrison which has patrolled the 22-mile strip of land adjacent to Hong Kong since a landing party seized it in mid-August. The attack had a temporary success, but it was only a diversion. Furthermore, it was a diversion which (along with the news that Britain was removing five gunboats from China waters because of "more pressing needs" elsewhere) only served to remind the Japanese that right now might be a sweet time to take Hong Kong...
Once a year, in mid-August, the sleepy little village of Goshen, N. Y. becomes for a day the capital of the harness-racing world. There, along elm-shaded streets that were meant for its population of 4,000, 40,000 trotting-race enthusiasts, in carnival spirit, meander toward Good Time Track and the running of the Hambletonian, world's richest race for trotting horses...