Word: safes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even with clothes on. The incentive: if he weighs in for a picture at more than 190 pounds, his contract makes him forfeit $5,000 for each overweight pound up to ten. For his second film, after a night in a Turkish bath, he tipped the scales at a safe...
...dates on which his solar cycles would begin, and stated that on those days the temperature in Washington would probably be below normal. In between those days, the temperature would rise by an average of y.i°F. Dr. Abbot had this forecast locked in the Smithsonian's safe...
...Abbot, a trim, slim, energetic 76, and ready to take on all doubters, this was conclusive proof of his theories. Instead of locking his 1949 predictions in the safe, he has published them. (He says that the Fourth of July will be relatively cool in Washington; Christmas Day will be warmish.) But the Weather Bureau professionals think they see loopholes in Abbot's defenses. To prove their point, they have turned his theory upside down. Taking his 55 dates in 1948, they have found that besides the warmer days in between, there were also cooler intervening days...
Left fielder Bob Capaccio and third baseman Harry McKean were heavy hitters for the Bellboys, each safe tying two out of three, Frank Lionette pitched for Lowell...
Power of Suggestion. In New Orleans, after the new Pitt Theater showed a movie called Strike It Rich, the management reported to police that someone had stolen the theater's 750-lb. safe containing...