Word: minor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...middleweight championship of the world; by knocking out Champion Freddie Steele of Tacoma, in less than two minutes; before 35,000 astonished spectators; at Seattle. It was the 16th knockout in a row for young Hostak, who has lost only one of his 59 professional fights. ¶The minor-league Albany Senators: an exhibition game (at night) against the major-league Brooklyn Dodgers, 7-to-6; during which 44-year-old Dodger Babe Ruth smacked a ball over the right-field fence for his first homerun in three years; before a record-breaking crowd of 11,724 who had stormed...
...Excerpts from the standard rear-platform speech which the President made with variations at minor stops throughout the West...
...only 31 pitches, allowed only one hit (single). With Pitcher Bill Lee of the Cubs, the National Leaguers, who scored a run in the very first inning, continued to humble the highly favored Americans, who had beaten them every year except 1936 and had jocularly referred to them as "minor leaguers." Even when the Americans finally succeeded in getting the bases loaded in the seventh, Tiger Rudy York, homerun specialist, proceeded to strike out. In fact, the American Leaguers, at the last possible moment, just escaped the stigma of being the only team ever to be shut...
Till his 65th year, Philadelphia Author John T. McIntyre wrote gimcrack historical novels and Broadway melodramas. Then he staked a claim on Philadelphia's underworld and immediately struck pay dirt. The minor crooks, racketeers, pickpockets, cardsharps, pimps, stools, finks of Steps Going Down (1936) and Ferment (1937) were as tough as shoe leather, as American as a tabloid. In Signing Off, however, Author McIntyre's claim begins to look as if it were rapidly being worked...
...Author of The Bridge in the Jungle is undoubtedly an American. Beyond that, he is one of publishing's minor mysteries. Knopf conspicuously omits biographical notes from the jackets of "B. Traven's" books. Guesses have ranged from the suggested, that here is a modest author, to, that here is a pseudonym used to avoid damaging the writer's reputation in some solemn field. The books themselves give few clues. They are written in a dry, travel-talk style, as awkward and as full of irrelevant observations as a letter home...