Word: half
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Rowing into a slight headwind over good, but not the best, water, the Crimson crew turned in the time of 9:01.0. Syracuse covered the course in 9:08.5, three lengths ahead of M.I.T.'s 9:21.0. B.U. was another three and a half lengths back, finishing...
Despite damage done to their best shell by a rock thrown from the shore, the Freshmen borrowed another boat and gained an easy victory over their three opponents. Never pressed after the first half mile, they rowed at a low stroke, between 29 1/2 and 30 1/2. Syracuse, behind by about two and a half lengths, began to make a bid to overtake the Crimson with three-quarters of a mile to go, but fell further back when one of the oarsmen caught a crab...
...scoring with two goals, fired the Crimson's first goal into the nets at 8:25 of the first period, after taking a pass from Nick Lamont. Dick Parks and Lamont came through with unassisted goals during the second period to pull the varsity even with Penn at the half...
Mayo stated that one of the primary objectives of the Association is the determination of the causes of premature births, which account for half of all infant deaths. Each year 160,000 infants die during and after birth, Mayo said. These deaths comprise ten per cent of the total mortality rate in the United States...
...past 87 years. There are personal glimpses of such luminaries as G. E. Moore, Wittgenstein, Shaw, Keynes, Santayana, Whitehead, H. G. Wells, the Trevelyans, the Webbs, and the sessions of the Bloomsbury Group. There are also the various views of Harvard as it has changed over the half-century during which Russell has visited it. When Russell taught symbolic logic here in 1914, for instance he seemed to find his students a cloddish lot. (There were, as Russell wrote at the time, two exceptions however: one was a young Greek named Raphael Demos, the other a fellow called T.S. Eliot...