Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...years Athletics fans have had little worth remembering. The Philadelphia story has been a succession of bush-leaguers who seldom lived up to promise, of dreary teams and second-division finishes. In Philadelphia this year, nearly everybody went out to watch Eddie Sawyer's Whiz Kids win the National League pennant. Connie Mack's last-place A's drew only 310,129 fans; that added up to about half a million dollars...
Connie could have hardly made a more popular choice of a successor. Philadelphia is home to bustling Jimmy Dykes, and the era of Infielder Dykes was a winning one. As manager for the Chicago White Sox for twelve years (1934-45), Jimmy had done wonders by persuading second-rate material that it could win a game now & then. If anyone could help the A's, perhaps Jimmy could...
...week, in the U.S. Armed Forces Medical Journal, a Navy medical officer warned sharply that the ill effects of penicillin are increasing in both number and gravity. Reactions like old-fashioned serum sickness,† he said, suggest that penicillin may act as such a strong sensitizing agent that a second course of treatment with it becomes impossible for a while...
...years scientists relied upon the speed of light, placed at 186,271 miles per second, as a trustworthy measuring stick. From time to time this value has been questioned. Last year a member of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey checked, found the speed to be slightly higher: 186,281 m.p.s. (TIME...
...Gerard P. Kuiper's closeup of Pluto with the 200-in. Hale telescope on Palomar Mountain, which revealed the planet to be 3,550 miles in diameter (a previous estimate: about twice this size) and the second smallest planet in the solar system (TIME, June...