Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder if we're strong enough to give Yale a good game...
Tired Reliables. That the Yankees were even within talking reach of the 1950 pennant was the wonder of the season. Injuries had kept Old Reliable Tommy Henrich (.287 last year) out of the regular line-up most of the season. Joe DiMaggio (hitting .285) was winning games when they counted, but he had been off form all through midseason. Relief Pitcher Joe Page (3 won, 5 lost) was far behind his 1949 performance...
...time. They tend to be snapped up by sensible young men. A nurse learns to care for other people's pains, instead of spilling out her own problems. She takes to family life like an old hen taking over a brood of chickens. It's no wonder there's a nurse shortage...
...from the finder came through just fine and the boat closed on a big school of fish. Then, as the Barnegat's 20 fishermen began to haul in their first good catch of the day, the engineers heard something that made them look up from their graphs in wonder and surprise...
Dark-haired, brown-eyed "Tex" Colbert, who was born in Oakwood, Texas and graduated from Harvard Law School, has been something like a boy wonder at Chrysler. A big, broad-shouldered, hail-fellow-well-met with a razor-sharp mind, Tex Colbert went to Detroit in 1933 from Manhattan's Rathbone, Perry, Kelley & Drye, Chrysler attorneys, and stayed there as resident attorney. In 1943, he got his first crack at production problems when Chrysler sent him to Chicago to unsnarl red tape entangling the Dodge aircraft engine plant, world's biggest. He did such a good job that...