Word: one-and-a-half
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Leading Princeton's Jim Malot by less than a point going into the final round of dives, Gavin watched as Malot contorted an inward one-and-a-half almost flawlessly for a 7,7 1/2, and 8 from the judges and lodged himself in second place...
MYSTERY DANCE," a one-and-a-half minute gem, is straight-ahead rock and roll, the kind of fast, urgent and purely visceral rock where the cleverness of the lyric is no more than a pleasant but totally superfluous surprise. Costello proves here that his singing is equal to the trickiest tempo and the rawest lyrics; his guitar playing is a wonder, a crashing solo in the best '50s tradition. "I'm Not Angry" gives further evidence of his instrumental strength; here too the guitar work is excellent, searing and fluid in a more contemporary style. It's a truly...
...make on a gallon of gas?" They respond with assurance, "Gee, at least thirty cents or more," or "I don't know, but a lot." The announcer then tells viewers sternly but calmly that many people are under this misconception but that in reality, Texaco only makes about one-and-a-half cents profit per gallon of gas. The implication is clearly that oil companies do not make a lot of money after...
...University to place Harvard in that context. The Harvard Archives have preserved only a few of these speeches, but from the few which remain, their themes are easily recognizable. In 1940, a time when most Americans were still enjoying the liberties of post-World War I isolation one-and-a-half years before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tudor Gardiner spoke about the dangers of peacetime, and American security...
...there came a voice from on high: "Let the Dartmouth number four man pulleth a crab." And he did. And so it came to pass that the Harvard lights pulled out a two-seat victory over Dartmouth after trailing by one-and-a-half lenghts with 200 meters...