Word: mordecai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Varsity C Team vs. Newton Square Squash and Tennis Club; Mischell defeated Peterson (H), 3-0; Reese (H) defeated Klein, 3-0; Sears (H) defeated Stoneberg (default); Mordecai defeated Doerman (H), 3-2; Purvis (H) defeated Daytz...
...years running he has won 20 or more. If he repeats this season, Sain will become the first National League pitcher to string four 20-game seasons together since the great Carl Hubbell. Others who turned the trick: Dizzy Dean, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Christy Mathewson, Joe Mc-Ginnity and Mordecai ("Three-Fingered") Brown...
...Died. Mordecai ("Three-Fingered") Peter Centennial Brown, 71, wheelhorse pitcher for the Chicago Cubs in the Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance era; after long illness; in Terre Haute...
...Glasgow early last summer, two young Polish Jews named Mordecai Szulc and Manick Kuper met a mysterious stranger whom they knew only as George. They were veterans of the Polish Army, and they were anxious to get to Canada. George was willing to help them, for $1,500 apiece...
...Gruner, Hungary-born British Army veteran who participated in a terrorist raid on a Palestine police post (TIME, Feb. 17), was the first to go. The others-23-year-old Eliezer Kashani, 32-year-old Mordecai Alkashi, 24-year-old Dov Rosenbaum-followed him to the gallows (they had been found with guns and whips in their possession soon after a British major had been flogged...