Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston College basketball team that may well be the class of New England took the measure of the Crimson five last night, 63 to 49, at Roberts Center. The weak-shooting varsity fell behind in the first half, hitting on only 22 per cent of its shots from the floor, and never caught the towering Eagle squad...
...varsity's zone was unable to handle B.C.'s single-post offense during most of the first half, and the Crimson fast break usually failed to outrace the fleet B.C. guards...
...varsity roared back at the beginning of the second half, as Mike Donohue hit on three jump shots, and as McClellan began to rebound and block shots. The varsity came within eight points, 32-24, but that was as far as they...
Like a stink bomb with a time fuse, a typescript of Nicholas Crabbe has lain for almost half a century in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Now exhumed for first publication, the novel fulfills the pungent promise hinted by literary investigators who have concerned themselves with the strange case of its author, Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe, alias "Baron Corvo...
...time with publishers, Author Rolfe clearly had a wonderful time writing about them, and British Bibliographer Cecil Woolf, in his introduction, provides a convenient Who's Who. Grant Richards, publisher of such authors as Shaw and Housman, appears in the novel as Doron Oldcastle, "an ostentatious tyrannical turpilucricupidous half-licked pragmatic provincial bumpkin." Publisher John Lane, who published works by Anatole France, Ernest Dowson and Francis Thompson, is seen as Slim Schelm, "a tubby little pot-bellied bantam, looking as though he had been suckled on bad beer." Oldcastle commissions Crabbe to write a history of the Medici family...