Word: tail-end
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...Henderson. Competitive bidding, said he, would be discussed later. Harold Stanley persisted, for well he knew that when TNEC gets into competitive bidding, such insurgents as Cyrus Eaton and Alleghany Corp.'s unruly Bob Young may get the first say, put Morgan Stanley & Co. on the defensive with tail-end statements in news stories...
...camp of Franco's troops. He was one of four, out of a detachment of 70, that got across the Ebro into relative safety. After that the men knew that the People's Army was being overpowered by German and Italian force, that they were the tail-end of the International volunteers. Scared Spanish boys came in as replacements, together with deserters and "goldbricks" once thought unfit for fighting. One soldier wept. "They killed all the good guys," he said. "I seen guys die had more room between the eyes than [the new men] got across the shoulders...
...last year when he hit .366 and cracked out 43 home runs for the Minneapolis Millers, Boston fans will have something to wave about. Third Baseman Jim Tabor has already proved that he can cope with major-leaguers: in a tryout with the Red Sox at the 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...
Princeton finished second among the voting of the Eastern colleges, with a 75.2 count, while Yale turned up third, with 67.1. Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium was the recipient of the tail-end prize, closely rivaled by the Yankee Stadium in New York. Navy and Dartmouth facilities were also judged among the poorest of the colleges...
...TIME was at the last moment advanced another half hour (too late to correct the advertisement) when a shift of other radio programs on the NBC Blue Network made available an earlier period (8:30 p.m. E. S. T.). To Reader Nicely and others who came in for the tail-end of its first broadcast over NBC, the MARCH OF TIME extends an invitation henceforth to listen in every Thursday...