Word: rhode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most important alibi of all was the weather: Sceptre had lost to Evaine in light airs and in sheltered waters. She was designed to be at her best in the rough autumn winds expected off Newport when the cup races start in September. "We fed statistics about Rhode Island conditions into our calculations," said Test-Tank Superintendent Bill Crago, who helped choose the winner from the eight designs submitted to Britain's Royal Yacht Squadron. "Out came Sceptre...
Their composite heads and brains seemed normal. The host chicks were Rhode Island Reds but the grafted tissue came from a black breed and it showed its origin by the growth of black feathers on the top of the head. The upper beak, eyes, ears, forebrain and half of the midbrain were grafted too, but the chicks could see and hear well and seemed to be normally alert. The one that lived 70 days learned to respond to a whistle, which many birds never learn...
Members of the board of trustees and faculty of a college in Rhode Island subscribe annually to the doctrinal statement following: "We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and the New Testament as verbally inspired by God and inerrant in the original writings, and as the supreme and final authority in faith and life." Could any but a sectarian mind believe that a loving, merciful, just God would harden Pharoah's heart (Exodus 11:10) so that he would not let the Israelities go, then kill in each Egyptian family because he would not (Exodus 12:29)? Surely...
Allan Steinert, playing number one, lost to Rhode Island Amateur Champion Tom Cunningham, 5-4. Cunningham shot a three under par 69, bettering Steinert...
...exercise; he had been fighting to reorganize Alleghany for three years. Only two days after Young's death, the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Young's planned revamping, and Alleghany common has risen almost 15%. Last week the Superior Court of Rhode Island agreed that Mrs. Anita O'Keeffe Young, widow and sole heir, could exercise (as executor) her husband's options at $3.06¼ per share. Paper profit at its current value ($5.12 per share): $200,000 minus 25% capital gains...