Word: mins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though the twins seem old, cold and aloof, one of them recently blew its top. Last Dec. 7, says Luyten, "the fainter of the two stars was seen to flare up suddenly to twelve times its normal brilliance and to subside again in less than 20 min utes, a phenomenon which, so far, is unique among stars . . . The atomic explosion . . . amounted to the equivalent of a billion atomic bombs of the Hiroshima type...
Nobody can be quite sure how all the great splashing began, but the Burmese have an explanation which seems to satisfy them. At the beginning of time, they say, Thi-gya-min made a bet with a rival god-who was so angry that he literally sizzled. The loser was to have his head chopped off. Thi-gya-min won, but his rival's severed head might not be defiled by touching the ground, so seven divine maidens took turns passing it from one to the other. Every time the head reached another daughter, a New Year began. Since...
Ominous Buffalo. Nobody but the professional astrologers ever know just when Thí-gya-min is coming or with what^ omens. If he carries a water jar, rains will be abundant during the coming year; if he bears a lantern and wears shoes, there will be a hot summer. This year, according to the astrologers, he arrived wearing a green dress, carrying a flower in one hand, a flower pot in the other and riding on a buffalo. That meant, of course, that cattle and crops would be badly damaged...
...cinemactor; of a heart aik ment; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Famed for his bluff, tough-guy-with-a-heart-of-gold roles (though he started in films as a female impersonator), Beery was a box-office favorite for years in such money-making pictures as Tugboat Annie and Min and Bill (with Marie Dressier), The Big House, Grand Hotel, Viva Villa!, won an Academy award in 1931 for his role as the good-natured pug-ugly in The Champ...
...mile--Won by Black (RIS); 2, Monks (RIS); 3, Cayer (RIS). Time--10 min...