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...apple and aliquot. 2. Q is for quinine and quohog. 3. R is for redact and redouble. 4. S is for sabulous and saccular. 5. Z is for zombie and zorilla...

Author: By Anna K. Barnet, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Favorite Letters in 2008 | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...feet are pancake-flat. Back home in Puerto Rico no one thought he would be a ballplayer at all. The Santurce Crabbers kept him sitting on the bench. "That kid was bowlegged and knock-kneed and had one leg shorter than the other," explains Santurce Owner Pete Zorilla. "A nice kid, yes. Full of laughs and fun, sure. But a ballplayer? No." What Cepeda did have was size and a pretty fair batting eye. In 1955, the Giants decided to risk $500 by signing the hulking 17-year-old to a contract, though he had never played an inning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bateador of the Giants | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

...without the North Atlantic seaboard and California. Yet last week the Republican Government at Madrid signed away most of its control over Catalonia which contains the country's largest, most modern city, Barcelona. In Madrid the Cortes, 172 to 12, passed a Constitutional amendment presented by Deputy Zorilla Cid (who claims descent from El Cid*) granting governmental autonomy to Catalonia. Most of the 470 deputies preferred to stay at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Macia's Catalonia | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

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