Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tonight, a Crimson basketball team will be launching a drive towards the first division in the Ivy League for the first time in eleven years. Victory over the Tigers at Princeton would definitely assure the varsity of its first winning campaign since the 1946-47 season, and would put it only one game out of fourth place in the league...
...nearly thirteen million South Africans, eleven million are non-European. The two million minority, composed mainly of Afrikaners (of Dutch descent) have historically feared the dissolution of their culture in South Africa's non-European solvent. In recent years the program of "apartheid" imposed by the Government has attempted to keep the blacks "separate but equal." Strijdom, disliking the connotations of the term "apartheid," uses the phrase "separate development." But his policies have underscored separateness rather than development...
...Government hoped to sell $5.65 billion, sold only $5 billion), and the number of bonds cashed in has soared. In January alone, the Treasury paid out $136 million more than it sold in Series E bonds, after the highest redemption level for any month in nearly eleven years...
...Congress approves, the boost will come through the same device used in 1952 to raise interest from 2.9% to 3%. The maturity period of bonds was then cut from ten years to nine years, eight months. The new plan would cut maturity to eight years, eleven months, and pay 3% interest after only three years. (The holder will not get the 3¼% unless he holds the bond till maturity.) A similar rate increase will be made on Series H bonds, which are sold in denominations of $500 and more, with semiannual interest payments. Series J and K bonds, sold...
...Worth Doing ... In Cleveland, eleven months after he was put on probation for stealing from the mails, Clayborne J. Allmond drew a four-year sentence as a probation violator after cops charged that since then he had committed bigamy, forgery and assorted theft, had topped it off by going to San Francisco, getting himself appointed a probation officer...