Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been shooting well lately," Wilson said, as he summed up the story of the varsity's last three games. If the team hopes to get by Columbia tonight and Cornell tomorrow night, its shooting will have to improve over its poor 21 per cent showing in the first half of the B.C. game...
...interview with Castro. At the appointment hour I duly appeared, presented my pass and was admitted. Fidel (He is never addresed anything but "Fidel" (to his face) bade me make myself comfortable "for a few minutes" in the wide hall. When the "few minutes" dragged into two and a half hours the picture had changed considerably. I was no longer waiting alone in the vestibule. With me were no less than 17 other visitors, all more important than I. So I decided to try a desparate strategem. I entered the bedroom, closed the door behind me, and stalked into...
...assembling the exhibit, the organizers were continually surprised by the extent and quality of material available, especially in the case of contemporary masters, as over half the works are of the twentieth century. Strauss, the founder of the Fine Arts Club, stated that "The exhibit is the first of its kind in several decades. Our aim is to stress the importance of this type of exhibition for two reasons--first, to show the great activity of Harvard in the art world, and second, to encourage collecting...
Harvard said that it would pay the current fair market value of the land--half a million square feet at about five dollars a foot--plus an additional $1,000,000. This extra sum is "to assist the trustees and the operating management of the system to accomplish the necessary relocation and consolidation of the facilities so as to free land for sale...
...best thing about TIME is that it doesn't take all that "urgent and thought-compelling" twaddle so seriously that there isn't room for a little news about the lighter things in life. I sure liked that page-and-a-half spread you gave to that scandal in France about those rich people trying to knock one another off. Oh, those French, eh, Mr. Auer! And I can hardly wait to see how TIME covers that other scandal that broke last week in France about the government officials and the nude dancing girls. I guess the issue...