Word: foot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When it was launched four years ago, N.M.S. got 19 companies to agree to foot the college bills of deserving youngsters, started off by testing 56,000 students. This year N.M.S. tested 480,000 (32% of all U.S. high school seniors), has 87 sponsors ranging from Sears, Roebuck, which has financed 350 scholarships so far, to the Central Soya Co. Inc. with one. By the time the 1959 crop graduates from college, the companies will have given some $15 million to 3,000 National Merit scholars. And, beside the actual scholarship winners, 10,000 selected 1959 Merit finalists can count...
About a third get to the Square by bike or on foot, and their average time for a one-way trip is 15 minutes. Another third who drive or get rides with friends take about a half hour, and the others come by public transportation, averaging 45 minutes per trip. The average non-resident spends a working day of 8.5 hours somewhere at Harvard, and the 70 per cent who use Lamont spend three hours a day in the sterilized stacks...
Though roughly half of all commuters never set foot in Dudley, the others eat lunch there, on the average of three or four times a week. About a quarter of these bring sack lunches; the others buy from a cafeteria selection that includes excellent ham-and cheeseburgers. Half did not list any extracurricular activity except "work," but the rest claim to spend around seven hours a week on a wide variety of clubs and sports...
...Fimbria, and finally Lucullus smashed Mithradates' armies; the earlier massacre was repaid with the massacre of 300,000 of Mithradates' people. Mithradates flew for refuge to his son-in-law, King Tigranes of Armenia. A few years later, Tigranes marched forth at the head of 250,000 foot soldiers and 55,000 horsemen. To meet him went Rome's Lucullus with a mere handful of men-causing Tigranes to remark: "If these men have come as an embassy they are too many; but if they come as an army they are too few." The words had scarcely...
...many as 200 police will guard the ten-foot fence and entrances which surround the seating area at the Field House, to keep anyone without a ticket from entering. In addition, three cordons of police will surround the Field House itself, and others will circulate in the crowd...