Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Admiral Rickover believes, for example, that the schools should raise their academic standards in order to provide more technical and creative training for their students. At the same time he deplores the fact that only half the youngsters of college caliber are actually continuing their education. Yet in "the good old days," When his cherished academic curriculum was universal, far fewer talented young men reached college or even bothered to graduate from high school. Instead, they left school early and became the anti-intellectual voters who refuse to support school taxes, and the "practical" parents who steer bright children into...
Catching the Crimson off guard during the first half of the game with surprisingly accurate passing and strong defensive play, the alumni jumped to the lead when Doug Manchester '56, an All-American in his senior year, tallied at 3:14 of the first period. Less than two minutes later, Dick Fischer took a pass off Greg Downes' stick and scored...
...Crimson struck for two goals within a minute and a half near the end of the second period. In that period the saves of grad goalie Frank Cony were spectacular--and necessary--but two successive screen shots after the 14-minute mark by Dick Reilly and Bob Anderson put the varsity ahead to stay...
...strife centered about demands of four-fifths of the eastern Mediterranean island's population of Greek origin for complete integration with Greece while Turkey demanded partition of the country for the other fifth of the half-million islanders, who speak Turkish. The island is Great Britain's military outpost in the Mideast...
Among the one hundred and thirtyeight works are pieces by Rouault, Klee Picasso, Durer, Renoir, Canaletto, and Toulouse-Lautrec. All were lent by thirtyeight Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates, and over half are works of this century...