Word: season
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...California, hounded by sheriffs and labor contractors, exploited, haunted by starvation, they spend one pleasant period in a Government camp, a self-governing oasis unloved by big absentee growers. Before the season is out, Rose of Sharon's young husband has deserted, her baby is born dead in a filthy tent, Tom is in hiding for killing a vigilante. But Ma Joad says: "We ain't gonna die out. People is goin' on-changin' a little, maybe, but goin' right...
Last month marked a high point in the spring book season, saw 106 new novels published. Of varied merit, the following four ranked above most...
...newsmen could add all that. They had heard enough--the highest authority in the land had commented on the news the land was waiting for. His arm was ready to loss in the first ball of today's game in Griffith Stadium, opening the 1939 major league baseball season...
...condition of the President's arm, unfortunately enough, cannot be taken as assurance that all the other flingers of the nation's pastimes are as well off. For this season in the sport might well be termed the year of the sore-arms, or at least, the year of the question-mark arms. Whether due to the widely discussed influence of the "rabbit" quality in American horsehide, or to the more mundane belief that managers have overworked their pitchers, the fact remains that an inordinate percentage of the country's pitching greats have grievous afflictions in their flippers. Carl Hubbell...
They are ready today, but the worth of their cures will only be seen with the actions which follow. And America will follow the race, and undoubtedly--for we say this every year--the season will end with the subway series, a Boston dime as opposed to the New York nickel, between the Boston Bees and the Red Sox. For it could happen. The Yankees might be train wrecked, or drafted, or something...