Word: regular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...major sports really are. For if a game like basketball, which is played indoors before a relatively small band of rooters, is to merit the award that is given to football, which thousands gather to witness, or crew, for which a half of Wall Street goes on a regular Roman holiday, clearly some other consideration than the excitements and the crowds seems to govern the selection of sports for the major...
TIME did not say William Eaton was a captain of Marines. And it was not after but before the Tripoli expedition that he saw service in the U. S. Army, first as a Revolutionary volunteer, later as a regular Army captain...
...character who, 23 years later, seemed highly likely to develop into an even more prodigious figure upon the U. S. scene is Cleveland's Robert William Feller, who last year made his big-league debut at the age of 17. This year Feller is not only the youngest regular pitcher currently functioning in the major leagues, but also the youngest in big-league history. This alone would make him a noteworthy figure, but it is only one of Pitcher Feller's qualifications for baseball immortality...
...addition to being the game's youngest pitcher he is also, to all appearances, its best. Strikeouts are to a baseball pitcher what home runs are to a batter- the most spectacular possible evidence of skill. In his first regular major-league game last year Feller struck out 15 batters, one less than the American League record, set by Rube Waddell 28 years before. Modern major-league strikeout record is 17, made by Dizzy Dean in 1933. In his third week of major-league play, against the Philadelphia Athletics, Feller broke the American League record, equaled Dean...
...regular customers Hart Schaffner & Marx looks to the man making between $2,500 and $6,000 per year and living 11 cities of 200,000 to 500,000. Always close to its retailers, Hart Schaffner & Marx often helps them out with advances, sometimes has to take over a store to protect its involuntary investment. Occasionally it buys out a retailer who is going out of business, to preserve a good outlet. Wallach's with nine stores in and around Manhattan is now a Hart Schaffner & Marx subsidiary, having been bought after the original owners announced that they intended...