Word: sill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...getting from his birds. A pigeon that can play ping-pong can certainly learn close-order drill; it is only a short step from that to organized rebellion. Buried in Professor Skinner's report is the note that at least one of his pigeons appeared on a window sill and virtually volunteered for the experiment; the word is obviously getting around. As far as we're concerned, pigeons exist solely to give monument cleaners a chance to earn an honest living. An educated pigeon will inevitably try to get something more...
Director Walter Heil, 59, of San Francisco's M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, got his reputation for sharp eyes and cagey bargaining in 1948 when he spotted a marble boy on a Manhattan art dealer's window sill, bought it for $1,800. Experts agreed that it was one of the few existing works of the 18th Century Italian master, Andrea del Verrocchio (TIME, March 14, 1949), and worth many times its purchase price...
Randall applied a match to part of the powder he found. The powder did not flare, so he said he thought it could be dynamite. Though still not sure what detonated the bomb, police believed the condition of the sill would indicate a fuse rather than a percussion...
...only clues are a circle of tin, two inches in diameter, and a five-inch piece of iron pipe. Randall also gathered a small quantity of grey powder from the window sill. He is sending all the items to the Cambridge police for chemical analysis...
Pieces of glass and wood from the sill of the window of Thayer 46 littered the ground. The force of the explosion was enough to splinter the entire sill, also knocking out a piece of wood panelling inside the room...