Word: bracket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from-crowded Chicago Arena, blond Figure-Skater Gretchen Merrill did the "change loop," the "three change three," the "back bracket change bracket." Five judges, stooping over the ice, solemnly scrutinized her "print" for signs of cramped, uncertain or distorted figures. Then their decisions were tabulated and averaged. The verdict: Boston's 20-year-old Gretchen was still the best. It was her fourth national...
Despite his Republican background, he had fallen into the habit of voting for Franklin Roosevelt. Out of his market research, and his admiration for the New Deal, he had decided that the future of the nation lay in raising the living standards of its lowest-bracket third. One day he called on Connecticut's late Democratic Senator Francis Maloney and said: "Senator, I want to get into Democratic politics. How do I go about...
...ceiling for detective stories is 20,000 copies (it was somewhat lower before the war). Any author who sells in the 15,000 to 20,000 bracket is tops. In this bracket are writers like Erie Stanley Gardner, Raymond Chandler, Ellery Queen, Rex Stout, Mabel Seeley, Mignon Eberhart, Craig Rice...
...sold for $40,000. Now it had nearly $50,000,000 in working capital. Then, it had only 15 employes. Now it has 32,000. The end of the war, Which had sent most big planemakers into reconversion on a lower key, had not knocked it off its high bracket. Its backlog of orders for planes was perhaps the greatest in the aircraft industry, a thumping...
Though effective in spots, the play of the Stahlmen was generally of the upper bracket high school variety; fast breaks, sharp passes, and accurate shooting were entirely absent. The only elements even resembling Grade A basketball were the work of Lew Desci as pivot man and John Gantt's smooth one hand push shooting from the corners...