Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Less than five minutes later, inside Bruce Johnstone took a pass down the middle from halfback Bill Rapp and scored the varsity's second goal. Several near-misses followed, before John McIntosh, the Crimson's right wing, curved a corner kick around the goal post, making the score 3 to 1 with 2:01 left in the period...
...Lunik II's instruments was a moon altimeter designed to measure its faster and faster approach to the lunar surface. Lunik II, the Russians say, landed on the edge of the Sea of Serenity, near the craters Aristillus, Archimedes and Autolycus. They think the last-stage rocket hit the moon too, but they do not know where. Since it was much heavier (3,325 Ibs.) than the instrumented payload (860 Ibs.), it must have splashed a considerably bigger crater...
Almost by default, the grand prize (worth $4,000) went to Britain's Barbara Hepworth. Sculptress Hepworth, 56, once had her studio near Henry Moore's, and has stayed in his long, pierced shadow. Her smoothly involuted forms look like Moore's women without the womanliness; they are more like analytical geometry than like people. More powerful are the forged iron abstractions of Italy's Francesco Somaini, at 33 a newcomer to the big time, who won the prize for the best foreign sculptor. Rough, inelegant for an Italian, Somaini produces work resembling meteorites and mountains, full of energy...
...specific case at issue occurred in the rabidly segregationist Dollarway district near Pine Bluff (pop. 37,000), where three Negro students applied for immediate entrance to the all-white Dollarway High School. School officials refused, and a U.S. district court ordered the children admitted at once. The Dollarway school board countered by invoking the placement law, assigned the youngsters to a Negro school and appealed the case to the Circuit Court. The Negroes' next move: to prove, if they can, that the school board acted in bad faith...
Time for Action. Orde Wingate came into the world violently (his mother was near to death in childbirth), lived violently, died violently. He had an intense feeling of mission, and believed he was fated "to lead a country" to glory; sometimes he would add harshly, "Any country would do." His first choice was Palestine. Posted to the Holy Land in 1936 as a British intelligence officer, he flung himself with typical passion into the Zionist cause. The Jews, knowing that Wingate was born into an evangelical Protestant sect (the Plymouth Brethren) and was a distant relative of the famed Lawrence...