Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lanier likes guitar tunes with mournful titles such as I Pass the Graveyard at Midnight and There's a Chill on the Hill Tonight. Says Max: "If I could hear my music while I'm pitching, the bastards would never get a loud foul...
Little Left-Hander. It is now a matter of deep mortification in Pittsburgh that Stan Musial originally dreamed of being a Pirate. Unfortunately for Pittsburgh, the Pirates never dreamed of Stan Musial until it was too late. Stan was born in Donora, Pa. (about 25 miles southeast of Pittsburgh), where his father, Lukasz Musial, a Polish immigrant, worked at the zinc mill to support a wife and six kids...
...games and hit so well (.352) that he was used as an outfielder when he wasn't pitching. In a chase after a fly ball at Daytona, his career was set for him: he took a header and landed on his left shoulder. His throwing arm never felt the same after that. So Pitcher Musial, as Pitcher Babe Ruth did 22 years before him, became a full-time slugging outfielder...
With 53 years of experience chasing bees, Edgell has no patience with dilettantes who merely think they know how to do it. Articles on bee hunting, says he, have one thing in common: "They are written by men who never possibly could have found a bee tree, at least by pursuing the methods they describe." Sample fallacies: a handkerchief soaked in anise will induce bees to point the way to their hive (actually they will shun the lure); a "beeline" home is straight (it is really erratic because "no two bees have exactly the same idea as to the best...
While brokerage firms were hustling in the hustings, there was still a virgin market in at least one big city. The 1949 consumer survey made by the St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press reported that 90% of St. Paul citizens in top salary brackets had never bought a share of stock or a corporation bond...