Word: regular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...debut game, an exhibition against the St. Louis Cardinals, he pitched three innings, struck out eight of the nine batters who faced him. Modern major-league strike-out record for a full game is 17 (held by Dizzy Dean). Feller missed this record by two in his first regular major-league appearance, but equaled it a fortnight later against the Philadelphia Athletics...
...feature, "Rose Bowl," is what the title suggests and not much more. Since Hollywood released their first football picture some years ago, they have changed little. There still romps the sleek, cocky star fullback, who breaks the small-town girl's heart, and the second-team "regular fellow," who runs wild in the final game to carry off both the victory and the same home town girl. In the middle of this very long film the producers showed a shallow streak of guilty conscience in the person of a meek professor, who objects to his small college vying...
...written several textbooks which are in use in the department. He has been composing all his life, and this Suite in E major is one of his more recent productions. Of the magnificent Brahms Symphony, little need be said except "Don't miss it!" During the holidays, the regular Friday and Saturday concerts fall on December 24 and 26, and January 1 and 2. Gregor Piatigorsky is to be the soloist at the former pair and Sergei Rachmaninoff at the latter...
...company now has 1,400,000 regular customers and fills about 3,000,000 orders a year. After a loss of $300,000 in 1932 it made $1,317,716 in 1933, $2,749,362 in 1934, $2,331,800 in 1935, and will make an estimated $2,700,000 this year. Spiegel common stock, which faded to 62½? in 1932, was selling last week...
...actual interest cost. It is simply an advertising slogan. To the unpaid balance on a car is added the cost of insurance, the total being multiplied by .06 to find the premium paid for the privilege of buying on the instalment plan. Since the debt is paid off in regular instalments, the borrower has the use of only about one-half of the original loan if the monthly debit balances are averaged. Thus the true interest cost in the "6% plan" is approximately...