Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Citation rate with wonder horses of the past? This week Handicapper Plaut pored over his form charts for 1920-Man o' War's big year-and came up with a 1920 Yardstick. Said he, reverently: "There never was a year like it." Plaut put a staggering 144 lbs. on the late, great "Big Red" (then came John P. Grier, 126; On Watch, 123; Upset, 122; Wildair...
...dark (or cold) side, regards the 1948-49 winter as the hardest ever-worse in most respects than the winter of 1937. The records are not all in (spring does not come officially until March 21), but already the bureau has a fine collection of weather aberrations and never-befores...
...Deal. The Long Island's troubles were caused by: 1) poor management; 2) the preponderance of passenger traffic over money-making freight traffic; and 3) the recent rise in operating costs. Never a rich road (it had gone bankrupt twice before), it had nevertheless managed to make money between...
...American Woolen Co.'s mill in Riverside, R.I., all the workers knew quiet, unassuming old Albion R. Allen. He had worked up from odd jobs at $6 a week to boss dyer at $60 a week. If he had never made a lot of money, he had always managed to save some of what he made. He bought a home and lived comfortably-by himself, after his wife died. Some of his friends heard that he also dabbled in the stock market, but taciturn old Albion never talked about it. Last July, at 72, he died...
Modern surgeons do an expert job of operating on human bodies, Drs. Lipkin and Joseph conceded, but too often they ignore human emotions. Everything would be fine if only a patient could calmly accept the idea of an operation. But patients almost never do. Most people have psychological weak spots and most surgical patients are "apprehensive, anxious people, reacting emotionally rather than rationally." They fear death (many make their wills just before an operation), pain, disfigurement, loss of function. The fears are as much a part of the patient as his gallstones or diseased appendix...