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...half, when Mike Ernst and Scott McCabe (not Paul Scheper as reported earlier) collided on a kickoff return. The Elis recovered the fumble at the Crimson 25-yd. line, and a valiant Harvard defensive effort clamped down for seven plays until Yale captain John Nitti cracked over from the six-inch line on fourth-and-goal...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Elis Smash Gridders for Title, 14-0 | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

...Ahhh Jeff, we've got a few boxes of six-inch gaskets for Long Island. Send Marty out will ya?" a voice said over the dispatcher's radio. The dispatcher poked a pencil into Marty. He rocked back to the floor, grabbed his tin and a piece of paper, and ambled out of the trailer. "Yew comin' too boy?" he said to me with a harkening drawl. "Awright...

Author: By Jim Tyson, | Title: Chariots of the Gods | 3/15/1980 | See Source »

...Waving a six-inch stogie as he growled his prepared notes, Auerbach said all foreign service officers hail from the Fletcher School of Diplomacy at Tufts, Georgetown "or some such place where they learn which fork to use and what to say and how to kiss rear ends...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Red Auerbach Touts Hoop Diplomacy | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

Cookie smiled down at me from her six-foot six-inch height on heels. Her hair was a foot tall white mass piled high on her head and her voice was husky. "Here's you application and your W-4 form. Sit down here at the bar. You got a pen, honey...

Author: By Sarah G. Boxer, | Title: New Orleans Nocturne | 10/11/1979 | See Source »

...ovulation, the production of more than one egg. The eggs are then fertilized by artificial insemination and, about a week later, the live embryos-usually five, but sometimes ten or more-are withdrawn through the cervix by means of a catheter. Each embryo is then transferred, either by a six-inch incision in the side or directly through the cervix, to the uterus of a less perfect host mother, which carries the superior calf to full term. Since supercows, or "queen bees," can be bred seven times a year, each can produce 35 or more embryos annually. This can make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Supercows | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

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