Word: freaks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York World's Fair's amusement zone covers 280 acres - more ground than the entire Paris International Exposition of 1937. Yet, although the biggest in the history of Fairs, the amusement zone sticks pretty close to any canny Midway's rule-of-three : freaks, peeks and rides. The freak shows boast no overpowering monsters: there are the pigmies and giants, giraffe-necked women and two-headed cows. But of thrill-makers, the Fair has one wow, and for peepshows, in spite of police threats, it contains more public nudity than any place outside of Bali...
There the home boys broke a 6 to 6 deadlock by using a walk, a ball, a freak fleider choice, and an error to manufacture a run. In the seventh the Crimson had finally overcome their four un deficit when Gane Lovett's liner got away from Holy Cross' right fielder, Ray Monaco, and let four Harvard runs rickle across the plate...
Behind the plate is Gothamite Bill Parsons, who is improving steadily. Freak southern gales twice bellow the batting cage down over him during hitting practice, which hindered his receiving...
Irving M. Clark '41, the man who first began gulping goldfish on a big-time scale, is considering returning to his goldfish wars again this summer as a result of an offer to tour the country as a circus freak and take on all local title claimants in one-night stands...
...with more modern, more efficient rivals. A plausible theory is that the Coelacanths retreated to the deeps where competition was not severe, and persisted there as the archaic okapi survived in the dense Congo forests, as the primitive duck-billed platypus in benign Australia. If so, some whim or freak of circumstance brought this particular Coelacanth up from the deeps to the coastal water of South Africa. And the possibility remains that other "living fossils" may lurk in the ocean depths, awaiting the scrutiny of science if science is ingenious enough to retrieve them...