Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...possibly arise, and that has to do with the spacing of the numbers. The listener is caught, during the intervals, in a veritable frenzy of despair that the previous number was the last, and listeners have been known to stay glued to their windows for as long as half an hour in hopes of one last piece. This element of suspense is all that interferes with an otherwise totally exhilarating musical experience...
Before an enthusiastic crowd estimated at half the F & M student body, co-captain Charles Pfrommer pinned Crimson heavyweight Ted Robbins at 5:13 to hand the varsity its second straight defeat. In two years of varsity competition Pfrommer has been beaten only by Cornell's Dunlop, who defeated Robbins last month. Thus, the Crimson wrestler in his first two starts has met a pair of the best heavyweights around...
...Foster remained undefeated for the Crimson, winning easily over their F & M opponents. Noble, at 157, outclassed Skip Taylor and came up with a 4-0 decision. Wrestling at 177, Foster routed Ed Keyser by a 13-1 count, and might have pinned his man had the match run half a minute longer...
...recovery from the catastrophic economic consequences of World War II. Part of Europe's new confidence in its own currency rested on a decreasing dominance of the dollar. Last year U.S. imports ran considerably above U.S. exports, with the result that $2.2 billion in gold and half a billion in dollars flowed out of the U.S. into foreign treasuries. Armed with increased gold reserves and with the knowledge that the German mark or Swiss franc is just about as desirable a currency as the inflation-dented U.S. dollar, all of Europe's trading nations felt strong enough...
...timing of convertibility was largely determined by the other major event of the week, the planned birth on New Year's Day of the European Common Market. The boundaries of this new entity are roughly those of Charlemagne's Europe (Charlemagne ruled more of Germany, but only half of Italy). But this new super customs union, among states which remain politically sovereign, has a power potential undreamed of by the 9th century Franks. The 166 million people of the Common Market nations produce more steel than Soviet Russia, do more of the world's trade (one-fifth...