Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grounds are closer than Yankee Stadium to his apartment on Manhattan's Riverside Drive. Ruth doubts that Mize or anybody else will break his record; but if somebody has to break it, he hopes that big Jawn will be the man. Mize is Mrs. Ruth's second cousin, and the Babe would like to keep the record in the family...
...late Mr. Harkness' correct name was William Harvest Harkness Jr. He was my own first cousin...
...tick, a remote cousin of the spider, is no true insect. Ticks and spiders have eight legs; bona fide insects have only six, the legal limit set by science. The tick's extra pair of legs serves him well. When a tick senses an approaching meal, he hangs on to a low bush by his two hind legs and gropes hopefully with the other six. If, animal or man brushes past the bush, the tick grabs on with all eight legs, makes for the skin. Having attached himself, the tick bores in with his hard snout and begins...
Married. Mary Peabody Fitzgerald, 30, daughter of the Right Rev. Malcolm Peabody, Episcopal Bishop of Central New York, granddaughter of the late Dr. Endicott Peabody, famed headmaster of Groton School; and Ronald Tree, fiftyish, M.P. and Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Town and Country Planning in the Churchill Cabinet, rich cousin of rich Publisher Marshall Field III; both for the second time; in Huntington...
...London, including twelve adders, three asps, four viperine snakes, 50 slowworms and two sandboas. On another plane from the Philippines, en route to The Bronx Zoo, came eleven tree shrews, three monkey-eating eagles, 14 giant cloud rats and 30 tarsiers. The tarsier (TIME, March 3), an insect-eating cousin of the monkey, is smaller than a squirrel, weighs only half a pound, has long fingers tipped by adhesive discs. Banjo-eyed is no word for a tarsier; its brown orbs suggest bass drums, at least...