Word: hour-and-a-half
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...most approved Egyptological manner. He had the hole sealed up to protect the relics inside from air and dust. He posted armed guards to exclude unauthorized antiquarians. Then he went into a huddle with his most learned colleagues. This week he reopened the hole for an hour-and-a-half, gave eight noted Egyptologists and scholars a quick look at the treasure below by the light of an electric bulb on the end of a stick...
Through the hour-and-a-half performance, the Zuñi emissaries did not miss a sound or a gesture. When it was over they sat down to powwow with Buck Burshears and the Koshare leaders. "This is too real, too true," they said. "What you do is not imitation. These are living gods, and we must take the Shalakos and the Mudheads to the home of the Masked Gods where they belong...
...hour-and-a-half performance was one more sign of revived interest in the man who stands at the fountainhead of modern musical style. In the past few seasons, Monteverdi's operas Orfeo and Coronation of Poppea and the scenic cantata Battle of Tancred and Clorinda have had concert performances in Manhattan, and record companies-whose search for new repertory material is partly responsible for the revival-have already put out 17 Monteverdi...
Students will have a two-hour extension of privileges for Friday. Room permissions will be granted from 1 p.m. until 9 p.m., in place of the usual 7 p.m. deadline. Two formal dances--at Lowell and Eliot will begin at 9 p.m. Friday. On Saturday, privileges will be given from 10:30 a.m. until 8:30 p.m. an hour-and-a-half extension over the usual morning and evening deadlines...
Still the most unusual part of the whole Radcliffe dining system is the rigid system of meal hours (or minutes). Harvard men accustomed to an hour-and-a-half period in which to get served will pale at the 'Cliffe's schedule--3 to 8:15 for breakfast, 1 to 1:30 for lunch, and 6 p.m. sharp for dinner...