Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tabulation of home addresses in the 1969 Radcliffe Register revealed that eleven states--mainly in the South and Middle West--were not represented at all and sixteen more had managed to send only one girl to Cambridge. The 'Cliffe's Eastern, urban provincialism is further reflected in that half of the class of '69 comes from three states: Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York...
Moss's minor characters--servants, barmaids, and roustabouts all--burst onto the stage intermittently with the same kind of gratuitous cavorting. A chorus number in a pub scene must be granted a certain amount of theatrical realism. The revelers sing so drunkenly that at least about half of the scene is completely unintelligible. The real problem, though, isn't that similar bits aren't funny (though they often aren't), but that they don't contribute to the more intricate and restrained development of the main action...
Pillsbury's bread-and-butter business is still based on flour, but lately it has done well in other fields. It now manufactures 150 products, up from only seven in 1950. More than half of last year's volume came from such laboratory-developed convenience foods as prepared mixes, fresh-dough products and a growing shelf of calorie-free sweeteners. The company's president, Terrance Hanold, is an articulate intellectual who is interested in philosophy and psychology. "Eating habits are changing," says he. "We are exploring food, but more than anything else, we're exploring...
...senate, then the U.S. Senate, borne on waves of alliteration: "Progress is not proclamation nor palaver," he orated when delivering the nominating speech for Taft in 1912. "It is not pretence nor play on prejudice." He based his own progress on one cardinal rule: Don't "offend anybody." Half awesomely, he was described as "the greatest exponent of standpatism the state ever...
...visitors did manage to score in double figures. Fred Livingston and Al Priest tallied 16 points apiece to keep the Wentworth team from completely giving up. Harvard boasted a 57-23 margin at the half...