Word: half-hour
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Every Saturday some hundred musicians don red ties and coats which they have paid for themselves and head for Soldiers Field to rehearse. There, out of their own pockets, they buy lunch. A half-hour later, each man equipped with his own personal instrument, and reading from sheet-music he has bought, the Harvard Band marches into the Stadium to what is certain to be one of the more resonant cheers of the afternoon...
...first half-hour all futures were high because of buying by feed companies, barley maltsters and porridge makers. Then the market softened and closed at the day's lows, with almost 20,000,000 bushels sold. Next day, most futures were lower again, though .they stayed far above former ceilings...
...sponsor, Lever Bros, (soap) is one of the biggest spenders in radio, and the time assigned to Irma, between Lever Bros.' big-time Lux Radio Theater and the only slightly less popular Screen Guild Players, is the second best in radio (the best: the expensive Sunday night half-hour between Jack Benny and Charlie McCarthy on NBC, now occupied by Alice Faye and Phil Harris...
...half-hour broadcast, opening feature of the Lowell Institute Co-Operative Broadcast Council's fall season, will also air an address by Lincoln Gordon, associate professor of Business Administration of the Business School...
Long cherished as a natural for fallen arches and other pediatric disorders, this term's booklines have proven a shocking disappointment to the moguls of Dr. Scholl's. After an initial rush, present lines move with the speed of a well-oiled production system, and the last interminable half-hour becomes bearable through the installation of seats in the Coop's bookroom. The regularly occurring fiascoes of previous terms seem to have driven home a hardlearned lesson among book dealers throughout the Square, but an early shortage of essential texts makes the actual purchase of books a highly dubious proposition...