Word: mopes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life. A little over a year ago, Psychiatrist Louis F. Verdel, manager of the Veterans Administration Hospital at Northport, N.Y., began an experiment that leaned heavily on the maxim. Dr. Verdel decided to keep a test group of mental patients so busy that they would have no time to mope, brood or withdraw from reality...
Rabbit-raisers, imitators, geographers, and their less exotie cousins no longer have to mope around the Yard hoping to find someone to practise...
...scrappy, slugging team. Critics say the Cards might have been the Yankees of the National League, if money-minded General Manager Branch Rickey, founder of the farm system, had not sold so many ($4,000,000 worth) of their promising farm products. Still, St. Louis has nothing to mope about. Manager Billy Southworth, a paternal oldtimer with infectious enthusiasm, has a green thumb for ripening green players. This year's Cardinals have six regulars batting over .300; Creepy Crespi, a rookie second-baseman who has made the infield click; Ernie White, a 24-year-old South Carolina southpaw...