Word: warts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Worry Wart. As the championships got underway last week in Daytona Beach's Welch Municipal Pool, the sleek-muscled star of the Walter Reed Swim Club* had more reason to collapse than to set records. All night Shelley Mann (daughter of an electrical engineer) had lain awake worrying. Even the presence of Tommy, her good-luck Teddy bear, had not lulled her to sleep. In the morning, she ground out a fast 58.9-second qualifying dash for the 100-yd. freestyle. Later, she led her qualifying heat once again as she clocked 5:31.8 in the punishing...
...Keith Jolly of the University of Cape Town and described by Professor M. R. Drennan in Britain's Nature magazine. In a "blowout" (wind-eroded area) near Saldanha, 80 miles north of Cape Town, Jolly found the ground littered with the bones of extinct animals: mammoths, giant wart hogs and a primitive giraffe. Among the bones were 25 fragments that fitted together into a thick-walled, beetle-browed human skull...
Every day for 25 years Cardano played cards or rolled dice. This did not prevent him from writing 412 different works on a dozen sciences and pseudosciences, and from speculating on such matters as the immortality of the soul and how to forecast the future by a study of warts. ("A woman with a wart upon her left cheek, a little to the left of the dimple, will eventually be poisoned by her husband.") But when the distinguished scholar wrote his Book on Games of Chance, he discussed gambling less as a medical doctor than as one of the most...
Wins by Charlie Elliott, Mike Wart Ted Rose, Elliott Hawkins, and Sid Singer gave the varsity "B" squash team a 5 to 6 league victory over the Business School club at the University Courts yesterday...
...publicity he could (Bleriot's little plane was on display in the store the day after it flew the Channel), advertised as no London merchant had ever advertised before. Selfridge's offered customers "101 unusual services," including expert umbrella rolling, cricket bat oiling, pipe cleaning, wig-making, wart removing. The store's "Great Luncheon Rooms" offered Southern U.S. cooking, such as "Fried Chicken, Maryland Cream Chicken, Corn...