Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nurse. That would be nothing new for John Franklin Sain Jr. For three years running he has won 20 or more. If he repeats this season, Sain will become the first National League pitcher to string four 20-game seasons together since the great Carl Hubbell. Others who turned the trick: Dizzy Dean, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Christy Mathewson, Joe Mc-Ginnity and Mordecai ("Three-Fingered") Brown...
...lush suburb. At Stockholm they could buy a 30-day, $995 "inside Scandinavia" tour, complete with motor trips along the Arctic Ocean, yachting parties, and introductions to government officials. The Danes, who had run out of hotel rooms early in the season last year, were building a string of new hotels. Out to please everyone, they were preparing to stage Hamlet in the courtyard of 365- year-old Kronborg Castle at Elsinore - * with a company from...
...Guthrie, third string lineman for one month last fall, has been signed by the Chicago Bears of the National Football league, it was announced Friday...
Courses in economics, social sciences, and American history were recommended for the potential journalist by Robert R. Brunn, San Francisco correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. He said, "Newspapering is more than a craft or an ability to string words together...
...Horse. The day after Pearl Harbor, this air service became a prime military asset to the U.S. as a means of quick transport across the oceans. On the routes which Trippe had first plotted with a piece of string on the globe in his office, the armed forces built their huge transport service. Drafted by the Army & Navy as a contract carrier, Pan Am ferried high brass, spies, planes and war materials into Africa, Europe and Asia, and built 53 airports. Its payroll swelled from 4)395 to 88,000 and its Lisbon base for a time was the only...