Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yankee President Larry MacPhail, who knew better, let the talk grow. He had picked his manager two weeks ago. This week, with great ado, he let the world in on his little secret. Shrewd Stanley ("Bucky") Harris, 49, known in the trade as a gentleman and a base-hit scholar, will run the Yankees...
Gerhart Eisler-Berger has the background and the intellectual equipment for the role of The Brain. He and sister Ruth were the children of a Viennese scholar-philosopher. Gerhart was one of the founders of Austria's Communist Party. In Germany, in the early '20s, he and sister Ruth were at the top of opposing Red factions-she the flamboyant leader of the violent revolutionaries, he the quiet theoretician of the "reconcilers...
Confirming the tenor of the report however, Conant forwarded other comments from warmer climates. "You are all being too provincial," said a scholar from Cuba, who agreed with another from Mexico that "suing leisure is no problem where we come from...
...Vaughan to be alone," complained the old Sage. "I've got Moravee to do. These games Koster lot of study time." just then the straius of "Duin What Comes Naturally," Rose from the street. "Meyer may," the ancient scholar chortled, "Howe Rich that song is. Music Hathaway with if, all right...
...Presidents have left much of a legacy to literature. The literary remains of Millard Fillmore or Benjamin Harrison, for instance, are scholar-carrion. Abraham Lincoln's writings, in bright contrast, remain fresh and readable...