Word: win
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...baseball and own a farm system that makes them look impregnable for the future. Will the Ruppert beer-filled rifles riddle the Windy City Cubbies? Will Manager Joe McCarthy, the only man who has ever managed both a National and American League pennant winner, become the first to win three World Series in a row? Will the Chicagoans succumb meekly, as they did not long ago to the same Yankees, in four games? One-quarter of these questions will be answered on Wrigley Field today...
...twisting trenches, he declares. After puting on their gas masks, millions of Londoners should then crouch in these trenches (which would be covered with timbers and green sod to disguise them from the enemy) every time an air raid warning sounds. Meanwhile, 100,000 unemployed British miners would "win the war'' by digging hundreds of miles of tunnels 60 feet below ground...
...would seem to justify his forays as Falstaff justified his thefts: " 'Tis my vocation, Hal. 'tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.'' For almost three acts Jesse James labors with gusto. But History and the Wages of Sin have to win out, and Jesse is finally shot...
Last week Dr. Lawson's daughter (now married to an accountant named Julius Page) and Broker Berg's daughter (now freshman at the University of Minnesota) were co-favorites to win the U. S. women's golf championship, played at the Westmoreland Country Club, outside Chicago. Each had reached the top of the golf ladder with extraordinary leaps...
...twice came within a point of defeat before taking the match, 5-7, 7-5, 7-5. Next day, playing against Nancye Wynne, 21-year-old Melbourne stenographer who had beaten California's Dorothy Bundy on her way to the final, Alice Marble needed just 22 minutes to win the championship...