Word: bowls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...misty June moon shone down on Madison Square Garden's Long Island City Bowl one night last week as a solemn prizefighter in a blue bathrobe climbed through the ropes. The plain Irish face of James J. (born Walter) Braddock was puckered with earnest anxiety. Improvident of his earnings when he was a top-flight light heavyweight seven years ago, 29-year-old Jimmy Braddock had, after successive defeats, toppled completely out of the prize ring. He worked briefly as a janitor. He made a pittance as a stevedore on the New Jersey docks opposite Manhattan. Finally he changed...
...Champion Jimmy Braddock, whom 22 men have previously defeated, explained his part in what was essentially the most colorless championship match in a decade: "I knew in the seventh that I had him. ... I took his Sunday punch and it didn't hurt me. Say, I guess that Bowl jinx still holds good." His night-watchman father, his mother, his four brothers had witnessed his victory. His wife, onetime telephone operator and mother of three, stayed fearfully at home, listening to the radio account of the fight. Champion Braddock dashed off to a Manhattan hotel to meet her, plan...
...tell of the "guppy Caesarean." I performed one which I feel even more interesting. I had separated the mother guppy from the rest of the fish by placing her in an uncovered bowl. After an absence of several hours I found the mother guppy lying dead and absolutely stiff on the floor, having jumped out of the bowl which 1 had neglected to cover. Being interested in anatomy I decided to see just how the young were arranged in the mother. Imagine my surprise when the first baby I removed straightened out and began to squirm. I got a glass...
...Rocky Mountains. Down went the flood waters of Cherry Creek to Denver. Down went swollen Fountain Creek at Colorado Springs, rolling eight feet deep in the residential section, drowning a man and woman on the roof of their sedan. The floods spread to Colorado's Sugar Bowl, rushed into Nebraska by way of the South Platte and Republican Rivers. The hamlets of Max and Parks vanished entirely. At McCook, home of Senator Norris, the Pastime Amusement Park slipped into the Republican River, grown two miles wide. The power station was demolished. In the dark, townsfolk watched whole houses...
...House is proud of the fact that his school was the first to introduce to Greece the gambusia minnow which devours mosquito larvae. These fish have already nearly wiped malaria from the Salonika plains. Some of the breeder fish came from Rome; others were imported in a goldfish bowl from New Orleans by a messenger who spent long seasick hours cradling the precious aquarium in his arms...