Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most admires Currier & Ives prints, which often reflect the same sentiments and the same details of rural life that her pictures do, in their less studied way...
...paint for sizing the sawed pieces of masonite she paints on. Grandma does her pictures in batches, like cookies, simply to save paint. "I'll use this blue for the sky in all of them, and then I'll take this green for all the trees. That way your paints...
...heard of starting a football season so early, for that matter? The All-America Football Conference, two-year-old rival of the National Football League, was acting like merchants who urge people to do their Christmas shopping early-early in October. The club-owners were convinced that the only way to get pro football out of the red was longer seasons, more games and bigger crowds...
...Wisconsin high-school boy in overalls and shooting jacket "went straight" for the first 68 clay birds, muffed the 69th, finished out his 100 shots without another miss. Then curly-haired Jimmy Rasmussen, 17, went back to his job as scorekeeper for other contestants, to help pay his way to the meet at Vandalia, Ohio...
...Just before the finals of the National Doubles, at Longwood Cricket Club in Massachusetts, Billy Talbert admitted: "Gardnar Mulloy and I want that Davis Cup doubles job the worst way." Talbert and Mulloy decided that the best way to get it was to beat their Davis Cup teammates, Frank Parker and Ted Schroeder, in the Longwood finals. Talbert fortified himself for the match with cold towels (against the 97° heat) and sugar (he has diabetes). Then he and Mulloy ganged up effectively on the erratic Schroeder with sharply angled placements, won their fourth National Doubles title...