Word: regularization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another champion was acting the part last week, after a slow start. Rapid Robert Feller won No. 17 for the season, as many as any American League pitcher. Cleveland Indian Owner Bill Veeck (rhymes with neck) celebrated the occasion by giving Feller a $40,000 bonus. Added to his regular salary, this will bring 28-year-old Bobby Feller's 1947 pitching earnings well over $80,000-the highest Babe Ruth ever made in one year...
...weeks ago, a Navy general court-martial at Brooklyn's Naval Shipyard began the trial of stocky Chief Signalman Harold E. Hirshberg, 29, a regular Navy man and a section leader in several Japanese prison camps after his capture at Corregidor. Chief Hirshberg was charged with hitting six men in his charge, and of informing against three who planned to escape. One of the three had been tortured to death by the Japanese...
...been hard at work on his volume for "Oh-Hell," which is Oxford's name for the Oxford History of English Literature (still in preparation). During the college year ahead, in addition to his crowded lectures, he will also be busy "tooting" his 18-odd tutorial pupils. At regular intervals they will come, singly or in pairs, to read him their essays in his handsome, white-paneled college room overlooking the deer park, or (when there is not enough coal or wood to keep it warm) in his tiny, book-crammed inner study. Lewis has informed the BBC that...
...H.A.A. sent out 130 invitations but only 75 responded that they would be here for pre-registration training. The men will live in their regular College rooms and eat together in the Business School's Cowie Hall, opposite the Stadium...
Problem Teachers. Teachers are sometimes as big problems as the children. There are ten on the Summerhill staff; they have been thoroughly indoctrinated and soon learn to be as patient as Mr. & Mrs. Neill. But when the regular staff was in service during the war, the school had a pretty bad time...