Word: half
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to Finney the demonstration by Dartmouth students and semi-nude cheerleaders at last year's football game was the cause of the break in the long-standing custom of serenading the opposing college's stands during the half-time intermission...
...Kirkland-Dudley contest was an unspectacular battle of defenses. Kirkland's vaunted power attack picked up a lot of short gains but got off only one long run. After a see-saw first half the Deacons finally punched their way to the 20, where a Lamb-to-Bixby pass registered the score...
Hilton thought he had picked up a bargain. For a mere $3,000,000, Hilton Hotels Corp. and half a dozen outside associates will acquire 70% of the common stock in a building which cost $26 million to build and furnish in 1931. (He also acquired $5,700,000 in bonded debt...
Supremely confident ("I think I will bust TV wide open"), Wynn was onstage all but five minutes of the half-hour show, grimacing in a succession of funny hats, outlandish garments and size 13 shoes. The fluttery mannerisms, Rube Goldberg inventions and falsetto giggles were the Wynn trademarks made popular by a long succession of musical comedies (Ziegfeld Follies of 1914 and 1915, The Perfect Fool, Hooray for What...
...Civil Aeronautics Board opened preliminary meetings last week to see if National Airlines, Inc. should be put out of business. The case for dismemberment was strong last year: hit by a ten months' strike and hurt by CAB's grounding of all DC-6s, National lost almost half its passenger traffic, turned in a $1,946,041 deficit in 1948. But last week, National's President George T. ("Ted") Baker was hardly acting like a man who expected to shut up shop. He announced that he would launch a new, luxury "Star" flight from New York...