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Word: half (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outset of the second half, the varsity put on its finest show of the season as aggressive team defense and Harrington's set shots sparked a rally which put the quintet 22 points ahead at five-minute mark. Four minutes later, however, the Big Red ran off 18 tallies in a row, tying the score at 56-all on two fouls by Lou Jordan...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Crimson Upsets Big Red, 67-66, Downs Columbia, 68-65, at I.A.B. | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

Saturday's contest started slowly, and midway through the first half sloppy Crimson ballhandling had given the Lions an 18-10 lead. But sparked by two beautiful fast break goals by Dave Grayer on passes from Bowditch, the varsity tallied 12 straight points to gain a lead it never relinquished...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Crimson Upsets Big Red, 67-66, Downs Columbia, 68-65, at I.A.B. | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...average cost of living there would be about half that in the Houses, both for room and board...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Dudley Plans Co-op House For Students | 1/8/1959 | See Source »

Time, conceding it to be "an effort of a sort and size rare in today's U.S. theatre," opined that it "has an often stunning theatricality, notably in the first half," but that the second half "rather lacks a strong pulse" and ends on a note that is "unsatisfying... because it lacks dramatic truth...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: More on 'J.B.' | 1/7/1959 | See Source »

...Hingle is somewhat uneven in the title role. But the second half, particularly, forces him to tap depths of which few suspected him even capable. Here, sorely afflicted and afflicted with sores, he stays hunched over on his knees for half an hour. And here he touches greatness; to find a just comparison, one must go all the way back to Lon Chaney Sr.'s title-role performance in the 1922 film version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: More on 'J.B.' | 1/7/1959 | See Source »

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