Word: bracketeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...school figures (which count 60% in determining a champion), meticulous Miss Merrill, letter-perfect at such difficult tracings as the loop-change-loop and bracket-change-bracket, had a big edge on the kid from The Bronx. In the free skating (five minutes of self-selected routines skated to music) the little gosling ran circles around the whole field. When the counts of the five judges were finally tabulated, they added up to victory for Miss Merrill-with 2,749.12 points to Miss Goos...
Crimson hopes rest heavily on the success of Walt Parsons in the 155-pound bracket, Ted Guild at 128, Pete Fuller at 165, and Stan Durwood in the unlimited field. Parsons will not only be gunning for his seventh straight Varsity victory but his 26th in college and school competition...
...month, it has already found that the leavings are thin indeed. General Hershey reported that rejections (mainly for physical and occupational reasons) already run from 35 to 40%, are expected to increase. By the end of the year only 3,000,000 fit men in the 18-37 age bracket will be left in civilian life...
...third slot still occupied by Sears. Sears' performance in the Christmas vacation play was also little short of sensational as he did not drop a game until his finals match with Orr. His greatest triumph came when he whaled Princeton's Ridder 3-0 in the semi-final bracket...
Shelter. City rents in Russia do not vary according to neighborhood but according to monthly income. In Moscow a person in the middle-income bracket pays 2% rubles per square meter of floor space, whether on eight-laned Gorki street or in a converted church, and no one is allowed to occupy over 9 square meters (96 sq. ft.). Since apartments average around 60 square meters of space, single persons and small families have to share apartments with others...