Word: seasonal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy, a species of ants known as Myrmica scabrinodis, which for centuries past at this season have come to mate in nuptial flight and die by the billions near the shrine of the Madonna of the Mountain of the Ants, largely forsook their Madonna and swarmed and died instead at a Communist festival in a village on the slope. "It is," cried one Communist, "the effect of the Pope's excommunication decree...
Elsewhere, as the season entered its final week, baseball was alive and kicking, and the National and American League pennant fights getting more hair-raising day by day. The Brooklyn Dodgers, whose revitalized pitchers were suddenly throwing more strikes, fewer home-run balls, rolled into St. Louis for their final whack at the front-running Cardinals. They led with their ace, Pitcher Don Newcombe, and lost a heartbreaker, 1-0. Then, instead of curling up, they walloped the Cardinals in the next two, the last time to the roaring tune of 19-6, and rolled out of St. Louis only...
...American League, the New York Yankees felt more & more like the defenders of Thermopylae. After leading the league all season with the help of pitching, a lot of team courage and the wiles of Manager Casey Stengel, they were looking like warriors who were about to drop their blunted swords. They blew a seven-run lead to the inept Chicago White Sox to lose, 10-9, threw away another game to the cellar-dwelling Washington Senators, 9-8, when two Yankee infielders let an easy pop fly fall between them for a hit. This week, after losing two straight...
...Boston Red Sox's slugging Ted Williams spends more time practicing before mirrors, Kiner is easily the most thorough and scientific hitter in the game today. In his room, he keeps a complete card-index file showing what type of ball each opposing pitcher has thrown him all season...
Tufts this season boasts an improved but untested team. Improved, that is, because of the return of forward Richilien Morris, an experienced, one-time All New England player...