Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole group (out of college one to eight years), less than half the men and about a third of the women were married. After eight years out, a quarter of the men were still bachelors, half the women still spinsters...
...music typical of all periods from the loth Century to the present. The Columbia History's fifth and last volume gives a taste and a sniff of the 20th Century's principal musical styles, ranges from the romantic Schwarmerei of Richard Strauss and Mahler to the quarter-tone caterwauling of Kulturbolschewik Alois Haba...
...wide doors, a neatly streamlined hood and front end. Designed to sell cheaply, like Crosley radios and refrigerators, to run economically (like Mr. Crosley's Cincinnati Reds), the new four-passenger car has a two-seater companion, a convertible coupè which can also be used as a quarter-ton delivery...
Cheerful were most first quarter earning reports sent last week to stockholders. For 188 large industrials, profits were up 110% over the first quarter of 1938, for General Motors and Chrysler profits were up about 600%. But businessmen, like baseball fans, no longer care who won the last World Series. They are already figuring on second quarter earnings...
Rowing under the moral possible conditions, an amazing Freshman new pulled to a one and a quarter lentgh victory over the Varsity yesterday afternoon. Slightly behind at the start, the Yardlings handled poor conditions beautifully with a low powerful stroke set by Jim Hall, their newpace-setter, and pulled steadily away after the three quarter mile mark...