Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second half featured that obnoxious march from foul line to foul line that so often ruins basketball. For a brief moment it looked as though the Crimson would come back, but trailing 37 to 32, the varsity stood by and watched as Yale reeled off nine straight points...
...half wore on, both Griff Mc-Clellan and his substitute, Jack Foker, fouled out, McClellan with 12 points. But the 6 ft., 8 in. center was not effective off the boards, and this was the key to Yale's win. The Ellis out-rebounded the varsity...
Following Washington's advice about "entangling alliances" the Student Council withdrew from the National Student Association, a move which aroused student apathy. A few weeks later, the first of several questionable elections was held, and nearly half of the college voted on the issue, some perhaps more times than others...
...midst of the apocalyptic vision vouchsafed the apostle John on the island of Patmos, there occurs a moment of strange quiet: "And when the Lamb bad opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour." It is an interval of cosmic suspense; the hymns of the heavenly hosts are stilled for the only time in all eternity and the seven angels receive from God the seven trumpets which they soon will sound to wake the dead and resume the symbol-choked tumult. The heavens seem empty, and the old earth trembles before...
From October, 1955, to April, 1957, the Army had anticipated over 150,000 men, but only 60,000 actually enlisted. At that time, only teen-agers 17-18 1/2 were eligible to enroll in the RFA program, and a seven-and-a-half year Ready Reserve committment kept the enlistment rate down (other possible objections--parental opposition, low pay of $50 a month). A person in the Ready Reserve must attend 48 drill meetings a year, and a two week summer training period every summer for as long as he is a member...