Word: half-dozen
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...President ate his first oysters of the season-a half-dozen Blue Points...
...Only a half-dozen first-rate marksmen?men who consistently break more than 95 out of 100 targets?have won the Grand American. No one has ever won it more than once. In the huge field?722 last week?high-class shooters have an almost insuperable handicap in firing from as far away as 25 yd., 9 yd. farther than those with the lowest ratings. Last week, Rev. Garrison Roebuck, United Brethren minister of Defiance, Ohio who won last year, finished with a wretched 71. A heavy rain made the visibility so poor that from time to time all firing...
Other squads went to police headquarters and arrested Police President Albert Grzenski and his chief assistants, Vice President Bernhard Weiss and Major Heimannsberg, and marched them off to Moabit Jail charged with conspiring against the new government. They were later released. Communist headquarters were raided, a half-dozen newspapers were temporarily suppressed...
...machinery. He had confidently predicted victory for Governor Roosevelt on the first ballot. Yet since dawn that morning three ballots had come & gone at the Stadium and the Roosevelt nomination was unharvested. Jim Farley's plans had been stalled by the stubborn enmity of Alfred Emanuel Smith and a half-dozen Favorite Sons...
...monthly devoted exclusively to the subject. Dr. Irving Samuel Cutter teaches the history of medicine at Northwestern University, Dr. Morris Fishbein at the University of Chicago, Dr. G. Canby Robinson at Cornell Medical College, New York City; Dr. Edward Clark Streeter gives extramural instruction at Harvard. There are a half-dozen histories of medicine by U. S. authors and perhaps a dozen other men who give instruction to groups in various schools. But there are few full-time jobs...