Word: reckoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important it will be for all GOPolitical hopefuls to reckon with Harold Stassen became obvious last week when the ex-Minnesota Governor shed his Navy captain's stripes and became plain Citizen Stassen...
...diplomats reckon time, the job was done with breath-taking speed. Just seven days after Petroleum Administrator Harold Ickes arrived in London, he sat down with Britain's Fuel Administrator Emanuel Shinwell and signed a new Anglo-American oil agreement...
Hags & Horses. Although the queen of the country's third largest industry has become a force to reckon with in the sport of kings, beauty is still her chief interest (she flatly denies rumors that she may sell her cosmetic business for $13 million). One small facet of that business is the farm for which her racing stable is named, Maine Chance ("I just went to Maine one summer, and liked this farm so I took a chance and bought it"). Women who want to be as consistently "winning" as her horses pay $350 a week (adjoining bath...
...years Abraham Bitle had called himself Biddle, pronounced it Biddle, spelled it Biddle. Last week Russian-born Bartender Bitle, 42, went into common pleas court in Philadelphia to make it legal. He found he had failed to reckon with the descendants of another immigrant, one William Biddle, a shoemaker who served in Oliver Cromwell's army, served a jail term for Quaker preachings, and beat William Penn to the New World...
...else brought Southern Cal's sensational miles Rol Sink, with it. Rol's 4:16 mile last season was the fastest collegiate mile to the country. Joe Sydnor's definition of "speculation" tops all yet devised. Said ole Black Joe when queried by Pred Livesey, "Buyin' and hopin', I reckon...