Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cecil kept a stiff upper bill. Then he began to lose weight. Normally he tipped the scale at 3.4 or 3.8 Ibs., but he dropped to 2.3 Ibs., and his appetite for crayfish, worms, coddled eggs and frogs declined. Whether Cecil was lonely for Penelope nobody could tell, for most platypuses are somewhat phlegmatic anyway (exception: saucy Penelope, who perhaps left Cecil for that very reason). Last week Cecil died. Zoo officials performed an autopsy, concluded that old age had killed him. Sentimental newspapers (including the august New York Times) said that Cecil's heart was broken...
Pitchers, who in the early days had been allowed to sling the ball out of a windmilling windup, were eventually held down to a single rotation of the arm. As the ball was hardened to speed up the game, gloves appeared, and softball finally settled down as a small-scale, frenetic version of America's national game...
...Clearwater last week, softball put on its small-scale version of the World Series and crammed in a full measure of fine baseball. The final game, as usual, belonged to the pitchers. In an 18-inning final between the Sealmasters and the Bombers, Clearwater Schoolteacher Herb Dudley, 37, hung on to win, 1-0, and the Bombers hung on to their championship...
...Little Picture." Murrow's zest for chasing fire engines on a global scale sometimes forces him to commute across oceans to keep his weekly date on Person to Person. By the time the show's technicians have torn their five tons of equipment out of a visited celebrity's home, Murrow may be on a plane to Washington to lay the groundwork for a new See It Now or closeted in a projection room to edit film for one already in work. At the end of a routine day's conferring, writing, filming or reporting...
...Pablo Picasso. But there are also Juan Gris, pioneer Sculptor-Welder Julio González, Surrealists Joán Miró and Salvador Dali. And now another name is being nominated for the list: the late Manuel Martinez Hugué (1872-1945), better known simply as Manolo, whose small-scale bronzes and terra-cotta sculptures are the most earthy and most intensely Spanish art works...