Word: saws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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McInnis had nothing but praise for his club's performance on the southern swing. "The Navy game was the best game I ever saw," he said. "Beautiful plays, beautiful plays. I thought they'd blow wide open down south." Actually, the Crimson made only four errors all in the infield--during the three-game junket...
Captain Curtin saw to it that the alloged criminal acts took place, but whether Pratt is the miscreant, or whether a crime was committed at all, is secret. The court will decide the question. The witnesses are authentic and will testify only to what they actually saw...
...financier on his dazzling career. Certainly it was hard to believe with the muckrakers that men of wealth were guided only by an insane desire to accumulate millions. Instead, Allen shows the financial giant with a supreme desire for order. The cut-throat competition of rampant industrialism which he saw after the Civil War was to him wasteful and harmful to the economy. His theory was justified in the 1890's when the vast confusion of railroad systems brought most of them to bankruptcy. Here, Morgan had his chance to bring supreme order to an industry, an order which...
...consolidated railroads, he saw that his work could be completely wrecked by bad management. What better way was there to insure good management than to place control of all the roads in members of his firm or friends? He had complete contempt for those men who had used railroads as speculative toys, such as Daniel Drew and Jay Gould, and his method was the only way he could make sure that such men would be kept out of railroad management...
With the gun, he launched himself into the water like a spent torpedo. He rolled a spray-spattered eye at the four other sprinters splashing in other lanes until he saw whom he had to beat. Then, head down, he started churning, with a fast arm but a slow, deep kick that is uncommon to sprinters. A pinwheel fast turn and a lung-busting finish did the trick as usual. When Wally's big hand touched the tile 51.4 seconds after the start, he could add another A.A.U. championship to his collection of titles (fortnight ago, he was voted...