Word: metered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Five-year-old Marion Delgado, thinking over a problem he had set himself-how to break a 25-lb. concrete water-meter cover-showed a disastrous bent for physics. He wrestled the slab to the Western Pacific Railroad tracks near San Francisco, confident that the train would do it easily. The Feather River Express rattled down the main line and hit the concrete block, the locomotive and tender jumped the rails, the baggage car rolled over with a crash, and five people were hurt...
...rarely any better and seldom any worse. She has been at it indefatigably since 1922, when the News began to look around the city room for someone to offset the already popular Poetical Guest. The searchers for talent could find no one with the same flair for carefully chopped meter, the same tin ear for prosody, and the same big heart. Anne heard about the search from her husband, George Washington Stark, then News city editor (and now a columnist), cried, "I can do it." The next morning she rushed into the editor's office, plumped a fistful...
...kind of kid the major leagues go after: big, cool and hardworking, with a good pair of hands. The scouts, baseball's ivory hunters, have seen plenty of high-school wonders flop in the big time-but Bobby Feller was only 17 when scouts found him in Van Meter, Iowa, and they always hope to find another. Among Bob Hansen's technical skills: a blinding fastball with which he mixes a tantalizing change of pace, a wide-breaking curve, a .461 batting average...
...Rowing Colleges, sponsors of the Second Annual Championship Regatta at Princeton next Saturday, tried yesterday to salvage something from this mess when they gave the Crimson, Cornell, and Navy top seeding. (Navy has lost to both Harvard and Yale.) But there will be seven other crews in the 2000-meter sprint on Lake Carnegie and only a couple of them can be counted completely out of the running...
Persuaders. In Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Louis Booth, charged with failing to put a nickel in a parking meter, convinced the judge that the meter was installed after he parked his car. In Lancaster, Pa., Tag Manufacturer Martin M. Keener paid his fine on an overtime parking charge, left the police station with an order for 9,000 parking tags...