Word: optional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louisans stuck through the contest at $1.20 each, racked their brains for a dozen weeks over the Globe-Democrat's "Famous Names." First trouble came when a Roman Catholic priest denounced the saucy drawings of Artist Arno. Soon the rival Star-Times, which once had an option on the contest itself, and Post-Dispatch began to hint that the contest was unfair. Finally two St. Louisans tied for first prize, won $6,000 each. Then Missouri's Attorney General cracked down, brought suit against the fat, frightened Globe-Democrat on the ground that "Famous Names" was no contest...
...authentic offers of $250,000 cash. In addition to Mr. Hanna's claims, Nevada's one U. S. Representative James G. Scrugham (pronounced "Screw-gum"), onetime dean of the University of Nevada's Engineering College, was so im-pressed by Jumbo that he had bought an option on a nearby claim and was camping in the neighborhood...
...Current Affairs Test in the magazine for June 29. I hied myself straightway to this town's first TIME-booster, Author August W. Derleth, candidly hoping to catch him with little better than a college average. Despite the fact that he is revising a major novel on option to Scribner's Sons, putting together an anthology of poems for another New York publisher, and arranging a book of his own poetry besides reading for review and otherwise an average of 30 books and 40 magazines a month, Author Derleth scored a clean 97-missing three questions in Transport...
...sent to play right field. He got a hit his first time at bat, continued to hit safely in 61 consecutive games, smashing the Pacific Coast League record of 45 to bits. When he finished the season of 1934, the Yankees had to hurry to get an option on his services at $75,000. Manager Joe Cronin, who had been Di Maggie's boy hood hero, was ready on behalf of Thomas Yawkey with...
...middle of the 1934 season. Di Maggio twisted some tendons in his knee getting out of a taxi. The Yankees let their option run last year, partly to give him more seasoning but more to make absolutely sure that he was not a physical wreck. There was one more anxious moment when it looked as if Colonel Ruppert might have bought a $75,000 goldbrick. That came in the training season last spring when Di Maggio first bruised an ankle and then, while treating the injury, managed to get his foot burned by a sun lamp. He made his debut...