Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three years at Lincoln Park, Perkins has already done an impressive job of brightening up and modernizing. To start with, he rewrote almost every label in the place so that visitors could get at least a faint bit of information about his animals. He set up a Zooanswer Shop, where people could have their curiosity about animals satisfied. (No. 1 question: "What is the gestation period of an elephant?" Answer: 19 to 21 months.) He repainted cages. He opened a Zoorookery (a cageless exhibit of scores of pinioned birds). And he enlarged the reptile exhibit...
...Piccadilly pedestal. Cheers greeted him as he drove up in a lorry. A drunk tossed a carnation with the words "From one Eros to another," and ducked away from alert bobbies. Flower-Girl Polly was ready with 15 fresh roses to garland her hero. An official stopped her. "A bit frivolous," he said. "Got to draw the line somewhere, y'know, but we'll hang 'em on the scaffolding." There was some dull speechmaking. But what the crowd wanted most of all was a good long look at their old friend. Armed with a brand...
...scrawny, timid schoolboy then in the northwest India town of Porbandar on the Arabian Sea, 700 miles away. Mohandas Kamarchand Gandhi was eight years old at the time of the Great Durbar at Delhi. He was already sensitive about his British rulers. His schoolmates used to recite a bit of doggerel...
...Olympic Committee, glared at International Amateur Athletic Federation delegates from 23 nations and announced: "I am here under protest . . . the discussion of payments to athletes in my opinion is not consistent with amateurism and is out of order. ... I challenge these proceedings." The delegates squirmed a bit in their seats, then pigeonholed a proposal to pay athletes $4 a day during next year's Olympic games, to be held just outside London...
Miracle on 34th Street. A brightly cynical bit of whimsy about a man who thinks he's Santa Claus, and his effect on Christmas trade (TIME, June...