Word: straight
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Chicago, Golfer Sam Snead, for the second straight year, to become 1950's leading money winner (a record $35,758), and to take the Vardon Trophy for the lowest average-round score (69.23 strokes...
...Present ocular reflexes indifferent. Very strong tendinous reactions. Trembling in tongue and fingers. Hyper-emotivity. Intelligent. Able to go straight to the core of a doctrine. A didactic tone hostile to originality. Temperament of a professor. Artistic but republican mind. Possibility of a cure following a fit of modesty. His condition requires that ... he be confined in a lunatic asylum, where he can receive the treatment of which he is in need...
...good grey New York Times takes pains to keep its readers straight on geography, is as careful with locations west of the Hudson as east of Suez. Thus, it sometimes identifies Chicago as "Chicago, Illinois." Last week the Chicago Daily News rose up in wrath at such provincialism. Cried the News...
...women's list: Mrs. Margaret Osborne du Pont, U.S. Women's Champion, for the third straight year...
...straight play offers a varied and interesting list, although, with possible exception list, although, with possible exception of the Odets play, it lacks a good solid tragedy. There is no hit such as Streetecar, Death of a Salesman, Cocktall Party, or Madwoman of Chalilot. Among the new plays, Christopher Fry's poetic drama The Lady's Not for Burning is probably the most successful. John Glolgnd and Pamela Brown carry the greater part of the notion and do so admirably...