Word: markely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High Light. The U.S. electric utility industry reported that its first-quarter profits had broken all records. With earnings in from nearly all major companies, net profits were estimated at $202 million, thanks partially to higher rates and lower fuel costs. Previous high mark: $196 million, in the first quarter...
...question mark in the Crimson picture is fielding, which has alternated between adequate and grotesque all the way through the season. The infield of A1 Switzer, Win Carduff, Henry Young, and Bill Hickey (reading from first to third) has frequently shown itself capable of tight, accurate play. But in at least three games it has been less effective than the proverbial sieve...
Only slight differences mark a Harvard crew's style from that of any other coached by a Washington graduate, Most crews take an even pull all the way through every stroke, ending with a final tug before removing their oars from the water...
...coronation scene at Rheims could be enacted beneath its Gothic beams and stained glass windows. The audience stood during the scene, and when brought back into Sanders for the final scenes, stood once again in prolonged applause. This column called "Saint Joan" the next day "the high-water mark in the drama at Harvard," a statement which was true enough then, but has thrice since been proved false by the Workshop...
...ingenious but credible situations and the direct, undecorated prose that have made him the best-selling author alive. In 25? Pocket Book editions alone, 28 of his books have sold more than 30 million copies in less than nine years. Fourteen Gardner titles have gone over the million mark; The Case of the Lucky Legs alone has hit the incredible figure, for a detective story, of 2,000,000. In all editions, hard and paper cover, Gardner's books have sold more than 37 million copies,* are now moving over the counters at the rate of six or seven...