Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their thrones, or behind them. Just how rapidly they can lose their strength, how fast and far they can fall, and how quickly they can be forgotten, is demonstrated in Isaac Marcosson's reminiscences of Europe's heroes of 15 years ago. The work of a veteran Sateve-post contributor, Turbulent Years' 18 chapters include sketches of Trotsky, Sun Yatsen, Calles, an essay on dictators in general, as Marcosson saw them. Some samples...
...seven innings with slow balls that flew over the plate like a single file of moths, twisting and curving where the Yankees least expected them. But after they solved the mysteries of the Dean moth balls, the Yankees went on a scoring spree with the result that their veteran Lefty Gomez became the only pitcher ever to be credited with six World Series victories, no defeats...
Document 1 is the final Runciman Report, summing up scores of hitherto secret cablegrams and verbal messages sent to His Majesty's Government by Viscount Runciman of Doxford in the period from August 3 to September 16, during which the veteran British shipping tycoon labored in Czechoslovakia as mediator...
...Sophomore stars of last year's Yardling team are engaged in a fight for positions, with George Hanford just a shade behind the veteran Harold Williams for goal, and Bill Edgar leading Phil Brooks, a Senior, for the right half post...
Ultra-tough, one-eyed General Jan Syrovy is the famed veteran hero of the Czechoslovak legions who stormed clear across Russia during the Russian Revolution, sailed from Vladivostok to rejoin their comrades in the homeland. It was smart for President Benes to give out last week that "yielding to fresh foreign pressure" he was unable to appoint as Premier General Syrovy, the people's choice, but had to choose instead a civilian, the Governor of Moravia, Jan Cerny- especially since it turned out a few hours later that redoubtable General Syrovy had actually been appointed Premier and had instantly...