Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the three weeks of unofficial drill, Stahl spent most of his time on fielding and teaching the pitcher how to keep a man on base. "With these fundamentals out of the way, we'll be able to concentrate on the other things more carefully," Stahl stated...
Stahl's career started at Illinois where he played baseball, mostly in the infield. Following graduation he spent four years at Stiever High School in Ohio, coaching baseball and football. For the next eight years he was at Ohio State with six of these years being spent as head coach of the Buckeye nine. His teams were always right near the top and one year came within 1/2 a game of the winning Minnesota Gophers, who dominate the Big Ten baseball Conference...
...Grace Pailthorpe is tall. Mr. Reuben Mednikoff is small. Dr. Pailthorpe is the daughter of a stockbroker. Mr. Mednikoff is the son of a peasant. She is 48, he is 32; she a doctor, he a commercial artist. She has spent some time bushwhacking in New Zealand; he has spent much of his brushwielding in London. Both have bright eyes, great energy, and perfectly terrific subconscious minds. Fate threw them together at a party five years ago, and they have been working together ever since on the Cornwall coast. Last week the fruit of those years-65 of the goofiest...
Born 51 years ago on the right side of the railroad tracks in Kalamazoo, Michigan, a plain, theatre-loving girl with the hair of a Biblical heroine, Edna Ferber got most of her first-hand experience during the six years she spent on Wisconsin newspapers. Since she was 23, she has lived most of the time in hotels with her mother, has kept a clocklike schedule of work-walk-read, has held aloof from close friendships with other writers. Most remarkable of all, she has imagined the backgrounds of her novels (although she says their authenticity has never been questioned...
...Dearborn, Mich., Mrs. Stella Maude Kronberg spied a dog struggling among the ice floes in River Rouge. She got out her boat, spent two hours smashing her way through the ice, pulled back to shore with the dog in her arms. Once there, it bit her cheek and scampered off. She died of rabies...