Word: stone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seventy-seven marathoners scrambled over macadam hills and cobble-stone dales Saturday afternoon in the Brighton Board of trade road race, the first of three shake-down competitions before the Patriot's Day Boston Marathon on April...
...wall lies under 50 feet of debris. It is made of dried mud faced with stone, and it enclosed an area of about eight acres. The inhabitants were broad-headed "alpines" of neolithic culture. They had no pottery or metals. Their tools, beautifully made, were of polished stone...
Playing in New Haven, the Elephants, winners of the 'A' league squash championship with a 43 and 16 record, managed to win yesterday only in the number one and five positions. First man Lee Folger easily defeated his Yale opponent in three straight games, while George Stone had to win in the fifth and final game to gain the other Eliot victory. Hank Holmes, Nick Ludington, and Maynard Canfield all lost their matches...
Officers are: Gregory B. Stone, Chairman: Jack D. Bagdada, vice-Chairman and Treasurer; Michael A. Kornfield, Friday Night Chairman; James E. Buck, Saturday Night Chairman...
This helpful hint is offered by a 12th century bestiary, compiled by an anonymous monk and dusted off by British Novelist T. H. White (The Sword in the Stone). The work is a charming illustration of how medieval man's other-worldly eye rested on the wonders of nature. As natural history, the book shows astonishingly small powers of observation of even familiar barnyard animals ("the virility of horses is extinguished when their manes are cut"). Armchair hunters will be pleased to read that lions use their long tails to rub out their tracks, that when an elephant pair...