Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spokane last week a gallery of 10,000, the biggest crowd in the history of the Professional Golfers Association watched the biggest P.G.A. upset since Tom Creavy beat Denny Shute in 1931. Through six sub-par days, the favorite, blond, methodical Veteran Byron Nelson, fought his way to the finals. His opponent there was 29-year-old, balding Bob Hamilton of Evansville, Ind., playing his first major championship while awaiting Army induction...
Yesterday, Pepper's lecture was entitled "An Empirical Method of Criticism" in which he divided criticism into three general sub-divisions. In his next two lectures, which will be given on Thursday, August 24, and Thursday, August 31, he will deal with "Hendonic Philosophy" and "Contextualistic Philosophy" respectively. These lectures are to be given in Emerson Hall, Room A and will commence at 4 o'clock...
...Schlieben's small, holdout groups achieved a few hours more delay. Time & again U.S. troops cleared one level of a Vauban-Todt fort, only to have Germans emerge in their rear from a lower level. Schlieben's tunnel system at first yielded 300 Nazi moles; from the sub-basement finally came 500 more...
Last week Harry J. Baker was in Matanuska, while officers at army posts and naval bases throughout the territory clamored for his services. Wherever he goes, people stop him on the street, begging for appointments. Within the past month, traveling by PT boat, barge and sub chaser, he has ranged as far as Adak in the Aleutians...
...treaty of Lausanne, fixing the country's borders, set up the small sanjak (sub-prefecture) of Alexandretta, between Syria and Turkey, as an "autonomous" region under French control. To the Turks, this Levantine Sudetenland, which they called the Hatay, was a symbol of humiliation. In 1939, Menemencioglu used France's fear of war and need of an ally to win back the Hatay for Turkey, thus forever endearing himself to all Turks...