Word: sures
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...returned to Boston, near which he was born and, as a grocer's boy, played sandlot baseball, observers predicted for him an archbishopric and a Cardinal's red hat. Last week New York's genial Archbishop-elect, about to turn 50, had fulfilled one prediction, seemed sure to fulfill the other...
...cash registers are rented from the fair. Many are the sharp but legal practices. The usual forms of building graft were supposedly prevented by strict competitive bidding for contracts. But it is quite possible some insiders stand to profit handsomely from the real-estate boom in Flushing that is sure to come. In any case, there is likely to be little muckraking before the fair is over: the City itself has too big a stake...
Denio represented business. "You can't blame business for being just a little suspicious," he said. Business isn't sure whether Hopkins' now appeasement policy is sincere or a political expedient, Denio said, but he believes that business is willing to cooperate...
...magnetic pole moves. No one knows why and no one knows precisely how much. Scientists do know that since famed Astronomer Edmund Halley first made his chart of variations, A.D. 1700, the variation in England has changed by more than 37°. Seaman-scientists of the Research are not sure they will discover the reason for the annual changes. But they will determine the amount of change by comparing their readings with those taken by the Carnegie more than ten years...
...tail-end of last season he batted .316 in 19 games. Not the least perturbed last week Rookie Williams drawled: "There is only one man on the Boston club who can hit them further than me. That's Jimmy Foxx.* And I'm not so sure he can sometimes...