Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yesterday in a game against the University of New Hampshire that was rained out at the end of two and a half innings, the Yardlings proved that they are again hitting at their early-season pace. The season's leader at the plate with a .368 average is lead-off man Mike Drummey...
...were going for a four-minute effort, passing the 440 mark in 60.0 and hitting the 880 in 2:04. His time at the half, in fact, was a full eight seconds better than Dyke Benjamin's fatally slow pace in the varsity race. Mullin tired toward the end, but he held on for the record...
...HILTON HOTEL in San Francisco will feature parking facilities for guests' cars on same floor as their rooms. Ramps from special automobile lobby will lead to 400 parking spaces on seven floors of 18-story building, to be completed by end of 1961 at cost of $25 million...
Biggest market for pools is still in California (70,500 at the end of 1958), but as construction techniques improve, prices dip and banks grow more willing to finance pools as readily as cars, backyard swimming pools are spreading across the rest of the country. Construction in northeast and midwest states (where pools often double as skating rinks in winter) will increase on an average of 70% over last year, and in southwest and mountain states a 61% increase in construction is expected in 1959. A 20-ft. by 40-ft. pool that cost $15,000 before World...
Author Panova shares Boris Pasternak's poetic affection for the Russian land. Serioja races across "black velvet ploughland" or watches the white-snow cling like "fat white caterpillars on the branches of the trees." Toward novel's end, the boy tastes bitter desolation when his stepfather is assigned a new post, and it appears that Serioja's health may force the family to leave him behind. At the last moment, seeing that parting will destroy the child, the stepfather scoops him up in a happy ending that is movingly true to the essential spirit of the book...