Word: temperedness
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Died. Thomas Henry Connolly, 90 the man behind the plate when Chicago beat Cleveland, 8-2, to launch the American League in 1901, an even-tempered, English-born umpire who once went ten years without thumbing a player from a game was named to Baseball's Hall of Fame...
At Sandhurst, Ionides tempered his rebel traits to the extent of graduating 153rd in a class of 155. He was delighted, since all he wanted of the army was free transportation to Africa to begin his career as a naturalist. The regiment went to India instead. When his application for...
GLASS CLASH is roiling auto industry. Glass dealers are pressuring Congress and state legislatures to ban as unsafe tempered glass now used by automakers in side windows instead of laminated glass (to save $1.50 a car). Tempered glass costs less to make, but gives less profit to glass makers.
The kind of newspaper assignment Gene Fowler relished in the 1920s was to be told by his managing editor to find a deserving old gentleman for a monkey-gland rejuvenation operation. When a scholarly greybeard named Mr. Bacon came into the New York American's offices primed with schemes...
LET the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans-born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a cold and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage-and unwilling to witness...