Word: ty
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rare in the U. S. as the four-volume mono graph on Pheasants, Their Lives and Homes-by William Beebe, published in 1918-22 at $250 per set and now a collec tor's item at $750. Brilliantly-plumed birds could be seen on the lawns of ty coons like Bethlehem Steel's Eugene Grace, but to most citizens a pheasant was only a long-tailed wild bird useful for sport and food. Now Naturalist Beebe's definitive work has been re-issued in one volume at $3.50* and pheasant raising has become a fad among rich...
...unfailingly hit knotholes no bigger than a dime. When he joined a minor league team, he decided that he was so much worse than most pitchers that only a special kind of curve would save him. He perfected one, the screwball. In 1925, Detroit bought Pitcher Hubbell. When famed Ty Cobb saw the screwball, he contemptuously told Hubbell to learn something else or give up pitching. Hubbell's control kept him from arguing. Back in the minor leagues, he went on throwing screwballs. In 1928, he was throwing the screwball for the Giants. In the All-Star game...
...this year has made him one of the five leading batsmen of the National League and its most spectacular rookie since Dizzy Dean. The other was Joseph Paul Di Maggio, 21-year-old outfielder of the New York Yankees, the American League's most sensational recruit since Ty Cobb...
...confused with sober, middle-aged Sculptor Robert Aitken or able, young TIME-FORTUNE Photographer Russell Aikins is Ceramist Russell Barnett Aitken. Son of David Aitken, electric ty coon, he inherited his interest in animals from his father, who started life as a fur trader at Rat Portage in the Rainy River country, Ontario. At the age of nine he was modeling clay robins, baking them by an open fire. He loved to skin weasels so that he might study their muscular structure. To study ceramics Russell Aitken went to the Cleveland Art School rather than an Eastern university...
...About 1904, Mr. Neal went to Europe, where he made caffeine from tea sweepings. Back in the U. S., he claimed to be the only man making aspirin in this country before the War. He also sold wrinkle eradicators. weight reducers, bust developers, hair restorers, Nuxated Iron* which made Ty Cobb "greatest baseball batter of all time." which enabled Prizefighter Jess Willard to "triumph over" Prizefighter Jack Johnson, and Prizefighter Jack Dempsey "to whip" Prizefighter Jess Willard. Currently E. Virgil Neal has a cosmetic factory in Paris, one in London, and sells "Tokalon" powders and creams "in 100 countries...