Word: fractions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crimson captain Chouteau Dyer won the 220 freestyle in 50.5. As in the Dartmouth meet, Dyer was slowed when he missed a turn by a fraction of an inch and paused to touch the wall...
Imported Singers. The trouble with the Ring, says Bing, is that it requires as much time and money to prepare as seven operas of the scope of Madame Butterfly. Even with its present success, it plays to only a fraction of the total audiences that the Italian operas draw (while three Ring performances are extraordinary, a popular repertory opera can be put on from eight to a dozen times each season, thereby making investments in rehearsal time and sets worthwhile). Moreover, the Ring requires the importation of singers most of whom sing only Wagner and hence appear a mere dozen...
That is an excellent piece on Edward Hopper, but I disagree that "the Hoppers go miles out of their way to get gas a fraction of a cent cheaper," as they buy some of it from me and not at cut-rate prices. Mrs. Hopper appreciates our clean rest rooms...
...Friendly Bean." The Hoppers go miles out of their way to get gas a fraction of a cent cheaper; they have never bought a new car. They eat out a great deal-at lunch counters. Yet they are open-handed with friends needing help, and on occasion they do spend folding money for themselves; e.g., Mrs. Hopper insists on her husband's wearing elegant sports clothes from Abercrombie & Fitch, though he complains that he doesn't "want to look like a damned hero." And when they bought their 1954 Buick, Hopper had the perfectly good green-tinted glass...
...Clock. New England was as solid for the G.O.P. as the South had once been for the Democrats. Even in Democratic Boston Stevenson's lead was pared to 23,000 votes (v. his 68,000-vote margin in 1952), a fraction of the total he needed to counterbalance G.O.P. strength elsewhere in Massachusetts. Ike swept ahead in New Hampshire, seized a 36,000-vote lead in Rhode Island (which he later increased to nearly ten times his 1952 plurality). Bustling ahead in New York City, which the Democrats carried by some 350,000 votes in 1952, Ike was stitching...