Word: half-dozen
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...half-dozen times, the morning of the race, Horse Trainer Jimmy Jones went out to test Hialeah Park's dry but spongy racing strip. Finally he decided that the best place was not along the rail, but about 15 feet out from...
Conductor Walter, one of the half-dozen greatest by anybody's ranking, was a pre-Hitler conductor of the Vienna Staatsoper. His strength is also his weakness: he does best by the Central Europeans-Brahms, Mozart, Mahler, Bruckner, et al.-but plays little else...
...nation's half-dozen best newspapers last week became in name, as it has long been in fact, a woman's responsibility. Mrs. Ogden Reid, inheriting her late husband's estate (TIME, Jan. 13), became president of the New York Herald Tribune and possessor of 170 of the paper's 200 shares. In as editor went her 33-year-old son Whitelaw ("Whitie") Reid, Yaleman, Navyman and fifth in a line of editors that started with Horace Greeley...
...line, where heroes are not so self-evident, there was more competition and more difference of opinion. Cagey West Coasters, aware that all the backfield positions were filled, began boosting as early as October for U.C.L.A.'s star end, Burr Baldwin. Baldwin, one of a half-dozen capable ends in the U.S., made All-Americas hands down...
...live issues of the 40's. In order to get the same top-quality treatment of these burning contemporary questions, younger men must be encouraged, and encouraged with the importance of their contribution kept fully in mind. The creation of even half-dozen assistant professorships would not be too high a payment to make, it would attract to Harvard, or keep at Harvard the best of our generation of political scholars. For a generation lost in Government is the same as centuries in many other fields...