Piggy the Story of a Basketball Nickname Cursed Star
In a Peglar high school season, star forward Eddie Lansford earns the nickname Piggy, face a growing crowd taunt and shrinking accuracy as opponents ride him. An audacious plan to muffle the taunt with cotton and whistle signals tests his nerves, leading to a near meltdown against Seltzer and a crucial Scottsburg game as the team clings to the district title chase.
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Wee Eddie Lansford
Peglar
Eddie
Brooksville
Blaze
Seltzer High
Seltzer
Vallery
Frank Haggerty
Bill
Scottsburg
Rags
Winter Riddle Test for Fans of Witty Wordplay
A playful set of five winter themed riddles challenges readers with wordplay and trivia. Questions cover clothing and goods bought by yards, dangerous assassins, a boy eating green apples, bodily distance, and Sweden’s cattle trade.
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Sweden
Keep Your Eyes Open The Power of Observation
An editorial urges readers to notice ordinary details around them. It argues many people miss common facts about stairs, eyelets, and friends, and that sharpening observation enhances learning and memory. The piece stresses daily mindfulness and using observation as part of education.
Banana Salad By Grace Vandercook
A vintage banana salad recipe using 6 bananas, lemon juice, and chopped peanuts. Bananas are chilled, peeled, rolled in lemon juice, cut in half, and arranged with mayonnaise dressing on lettuce leaves, then sprinkled with peanuts for serving.
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Grace Vandercook
Toy Dogs Demand More Care Than Big Fellow Pets
The smallest dogs, known as toy breeds, need careful handling and regular feedings. Pugs are friendly but greedy and prone to laziness. Pomeranians are intelligent but fussy, while Schipperkes are conceited yet well tempered. Yorkshire and Toy Terriers require grooming and steady routines for health and coat care.
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Black Schipperke
Trick With Squares Becomes Clever Mental Read
A magician performs a blindfolded square trick where the spectator forms two rows, top row one more square than bottom. By removing squares and matching counts, the performer can name the remaining number, such as three, without seeing the pile. The method hinges on the fixed difference between rows.
Romans Built Roads That Stand Across Two Millennia
The passage recalls ancient Rome as a pioneer in road building. It notes Roman roads used across Europe, especially Italy, built to last with stone slabs. It cites the Via Appia, begun in 312 B.C. by Appius Claudius, and emphasizes enduring quality of Roman infrastructure.
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Europe
Italy
Rome
EL Eop Pars
Asia
Africa
Capua
Appius Claudius
Appia
Roman Empire
Puzzle and word ladder tease with Shakespeare hint
A quiz prompts solving a three word square where the first word means bow the second is sold at gasoline stations and the third means indistinct. It asks to transform KILL to DEAD in four moves and SING to NOTE with two word chains. The line plus a hidden fruit clue and a caution about a wise mouse appears in a playful puzzle context.
CROSS WORD PUZZLE DEFINITIONS AND ANSWERS
Puzzle lists horizontal and vertical clues with abbreviations and wordplay. Includes abbreviations for state and title cues, several cryptic style hints, and a final line claiming the hidden word is apple. Solutions reference phrases like who steals my purse, kill divided deal, dead, sing sine nine none note, and a note about a hidden frit being apple.
Remarkable Boy's United States History Examination Note
A small boy submitted a remark in an examination paper stating that General Braddock was killed in the Revolutionary War and that he had three horses shot under him while a fourth went through his clothes, a misattribution noted in the test.
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United States
Braddock
Riddles And Hidden Word Techniques Explained
The reader describes a sequence of steps to use top row squares and bottom row counts to align an answer with a hidden word. It outlines variations including revealing a number, underlining a word, and stages to locate the target word. The five labeled answers hint at Carpet, a cheerful man, a punny medical term, One block, and a misheard name for Stockholm.
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Stockholm
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W. Boyce Morgan
Tome
Tre
Punkinville
Edward Rilew
Mi Hele
Setac
A.L. F
Ug Arnys
Simon
Shake~speare
Shakespeare
Sair
Spain
Bay
ceTsyia
Stal
Patri
Adventures OF
Peter Pen
BY Nick Nichols
Roya Laboratory
Dale
Boy
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