Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With his countryman Merv Lincoln tagging along behind him, Herb loped over the grassy turf track with the stride of an astonished ostrich. He stuck to the early pacemakers with ease. When Texas' Drew Dunlap and Maryland's Burr Grim pulled him through a 2:00.5 first half, Herb knew he was running a hot mile. In the third quarter, his pacemakers began to burn out, and Herb went into business for himself. He opened a steadily widening lead, finished 20 yds. in front of Lincoln, who was clocked at a commendable...
...When he turned into the stretch at Pimlico's horse park. Calumet's
dark bay colt Tim Tam saw racing room ahead, ran like a thief and stole
the $133,950 Preakness from Sunny Blue Farm's Lincoln Road by a long
length and a half. The weather was fine, the track was fast, and when
Silky Sullivan, the California clown, clumped home eighth, he had no
excuses. The truth was out: the Western hotshot is an Eastern
horselaugh.
...Germany's greatest painter? Half a century ago, the title would have been disputed among Albrecht Diirer, Lucas Cranach and Hans Holbein the Younger. Now Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born head of the History of Art Department at London University's Birkbeck College, unhesitatingly comes out for the 16th century Gothic master whom critics have long called Matthias Griinewald...
...roads, dams, industries -and little to pay the bills save raw materials. Owing largely to the commodity decline, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, its 16 Asian member nations had an aggregate net deficit of $2.1 billion for the first half of 1957 alone v. a deficit of $750 million for all of 1955. To make it worse, the area's share (excluding Japan) of world trade, which stood at 10.7% of the total in 1950, has now declined...
...several months" on present orders; dealers must wait more than two months for some models. The biggest season for sales of heavy farm equipment is still ahead; more than 50% of the demand for such heavy-duty equipment as hay balers, combines and corn pickers comes in the second half of the year...