Word: lockerful
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...teammates, turning a once great team into a floundering non-contender? According to overwhelming opinion of the medical profession, poliomyelitis, similar to infantile paralysis, is communicable. The Yanks were exposed to it at its most acute stage. They played ball with the afflicted Gehrig, dressed and undressed in the locker room with him, traveled, played cards and ate with him. Isn't it possible some of them also became infected...
Eighteen years ago, on the eve of the U. S. Open at Skokie, stocky Gene Sarazen, a 20-year-old ex-caddy, calmly announced to his locker-roommates that he was going to win America's No. i golf tournament...
...BEDSIDE ESQUIRE - Edited by Arnold Gingrich-McBride ($3). For many a U. S. magazine, women call the tune. Not so for Esquire. The locker-room delight of the defiantly A. W. 0. L., white-collar U. S. male, Esquire has made itself the house organ of all brands of U. S. adolescence, its most interesting single product drawings of cellophane-glossed girls by George Petty. Despite its coy title. The Bedside Esquire contains no art-teasers; it is solid print. Among the 77 items: stories or articles, mainly second-rate, by the late D. H. Lawrence and Thome Smith...
Their plan : to ring the city with a chain of branch locker plants serviced by one central unit...
Since the first branch plant opened four months ago, 50 more have been ordered or built. Last week a 100-locker branch plant opened for business in Geneseo, Ill. (pop.3,406). To it went customers who had been waiting for lockers in Emil Klinger's filled main plant. For his $10 deposit each newcomer received two keys - one to the front door and one to the locker - and the right to borrow an overcoat from the rack inside, so he won't catch cold getting his food out of his 0°-10° safe-deposit...