Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Series history. When it was over, 18-to-4 for the Yankees, the Giants had used five pitchers. Every Yankee including Pitcher Lefty Gomez had made at least one hit and one run. Baseball statisticians had compiled an even dozen new records. It was the biggest score and the worst beating in World Series history. Most brilliant individual performance was that of Second Baseman Tony Lazzeri. He duplicated a feat accomplished only once before in a World Series when, in the third inning, he made a home run with the bases full. Later, he shared with Catcher Bill Dickey...
...Down upon Colorado last week swept the worst September blizzard in years, smothering Denver with 17 inches of snow, disrupting traffic throughout the State. Up from El Paso, Tex. about the same time climbed a single-motored Lockheed Vega belonging to Varney Air Transport, Inc., passenger-mail line between El Paso and Pueblo, Colo. Meeting bad weather, Pilot C. H. Chidlaw landed at Trinidad, Colo, for the night. Next morning he and his two passengers headed north again. Twenty minutes later, three ranchers near lonely Rattlesnake Buttes saw the plane circling in distress through the heavy blizzard. Apparently intending...
...railroad system remains a basic business index. When the railroads load less than 500,000 freight cars per week the country is depressed. When they load more than 1,000,000 a boom is in full flower. A few years ago when railroad finance looked its worst, statisticians used to put their feet on their desks and say that there was nothing wrong with the railroad that could not be cured by weekly loadings...
...with interest the story of Harvard's Class of '11 (TIME, Sept. 14), it occurred to me that many of your younger readers might be interested in a class five years out of college, a class thrown out into the world in '31 at about the worst period of the Depression...
...Johnny Fischer and Omaha's Johnny Goodman, out to play their matches. While the golfers staggered around the course, the older members, having waited 28 years for a great golfing spectacle, sat down to squint instead at what Fate had substituted for it. Long Island's worst storm in years submerged the greens, made ponds out of traps, raised whitecaps on the pond hole. It drenched the handful of officials, caddies and eccentrics who followed the two matches. Finally it blew down two huge tents, put up to house a restaurant and the press. From their lounge windows...