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...junction of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas quieted down for a while. But the next day the great, hedgehopping twister was on the go again. This time it struck in the small plantation communities 40 miles south of Little Rock, Ark. (pop. 88,000), cut a 20-mile swath of freakish destruction, destroyed over 1,000 houses and other buildings, killed 34 people. While rescuers searched the wreckage for more bodies, they kept a wary eye on the western horizon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEATHER: Tornado Junction | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...pound class Frank Trinkle got a freakish pin over the Springfield captain Charles Adams when he caught Adams in an armlock and waisthold on a takedown a 1:16 of the first period. Captain Don Louria got the other Crimson fall in 2:56 of the first frame with a cruciflx hold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers Follow Wesleyan Pattern To Top Springfield, 21-11, in Finale | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...Abdominal pregnancy results from a freakish failure of the fertilized egg to pass through a Fallopian tube to the uterus. The placenta attaches itself, like a parasite, to abdominal organs or membranes. The pregnancy is painful because the placenta irritates the tissues and the baby kicks the nerve-rich peritoneum (abdominal lining). When they discover the condition, doctors usually operate at once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Abdomen Baby | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

Twenty minutes later the Bruins tied up the contest on as freakish a play as has occurred this season. When the ball went out of bounds in fairly deep Harvard territory, the Crimson right wing threw it in to his halfback. The half-back, evidently thinking that he should make the throw-in, picked up the ball and started to the sidelines. The referee blew his whistle, ruled that a legal throw-in had been made, and called a hands penalty on the Crimson. On the subsequent free kick, Guiseppo Antone nudged the ball in for the only Brown score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bears Tie Soccer Eleven, 1-1, with Last Period Goal | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...original (Gulliver's Travels) Lilliputians are the discovery of British Author T. H. White, author of three Arthurian-legend fantasies: The Sword in the Stone, The Witch in the Wood, The Ill-Made Knight. He has put them to good use in a book that is freakish fantasy from start to finish. Supposedly a children's book, it will entertain most adults (it is the Book-of-the-Month Club choice for October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Lilliput Land | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

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