Word: intervale
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Some federal commissions have made notable contributions to American life. The Government's current program to combat crime, for example, drew many of its provisions from the 1967 Crime Commission report. The draft lottery that went into effect last month stems from a recommendation of a presidential commission appointed...
George Barker ran his best race of the year, and led until the last 100 yards of the 3.3-mile course, when Quirk burst past him in a sprinting finish. Dartmouth's Tom Shiland came in third, even though three Harvard runners-Marshall Jones, Mark Connolly, and Tom New-made...
The time interval of one minute between the first and fifth runners, often an indication of a team's strength, was wider than desirable but McCurdy attributed the spread to the hard workout he gave his team on Thursday.
This prodigious output has long since made the author a millionaire. Simenon's house at Epalinges, a small Swiss village near Lausanne, has 26 rooms, 21 telephones, portraits of its owner by Buffet, Vlaminck and Cocteau. But the house is more important as a mark of contentment for the...
History, Jean-Paul Sartre once observed, is a bad joke played by the present upon the past. The perception has more to do with the inevitable bias of historians than with history itself. It emphasizes, however, the value of the practice that allowed a suitable interval to elapse before the...