Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fish." He took up painting, wrote slick fiction with Arthur Train ( The Moon-Maker; The Man Who Rocked the Earth), produced a book of verse and sketches called How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers ("The awkward Auk is only known/To dwellers in the Auk-tic zone . . ."). He also became a successful sleuth. He helped police reconstruct the bomb used in the Wall Street bombing of 1920 and, after some laboratory work, led them to the man who blew up young Naomi Hall in the notorious Candy Box Murder Case.-The police began to consult him so often...
...Eagles led for the first quarter and part of the second, mainly because they were having success in their set shots from outside the Crimson's zone defense. Suddenly the Crimson solved one of the game's elementary problems --how to put the ball through the hoop--and began to catch up fast...
Several times the Crimson was guilty of bad clearing. Bob Babine took advantage of one of these lapses to set up the first B.C. goal. Frequently Harvard failed to cover adequately its own zone. A miscue of this sort allowed Frank O'Grady to sink B.C.'s second tally, after a pass-and-rebound play by Joe Hosford and John Hansbery had drawn goalie Nate Corning...
Family Business. In St. Louis, a loading zone permit for the Central Casket Co. was taken out by H. S. Coffin...
Sorcerer's Apprentice. In West Berlin, Germany, Ernst Bogelsack sneaked into town from the Soviet Zone, hid in a public lavatory until the attendant left, removed the brass water taps from the sinks in order to sell them in the black market, immediately loosed a flood, tried to get out but found the doors locked, howled for help until a passing police patrol broke in and rescued him from the rising waters, by then neck-deep...