Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liked to squat motionless as a stump in the forest or sit for hours on the limb of a tree. For long-range work he used giant binoculars mounted on a tripod; with these he could make out the scent gland of the hind leg of a butterfly a quarter of a mile away. "I often wondered," he says, in a sentence of purest Beebe, "what the soaring vultures, looking down, made of this strange creature with great tubular eyes and five legs...
Said the News: "There are 16 detectives accepting graft in the Miami police department. This is one-quarter of the entire detective bureau . . ." The News did not name the 16, but it did not leave much room for doubt either: "Five of the graft-takers are in District Two. There are six [detectives] in this district...
...said, the industry should spend $1 billion a year on expansion. He warned that power-men should not be lulled into thinking that long-term demands would lessen just because business had started to slip off. Said he: The current slide in business might last until the second quarter of next year. By the end of 1951, there should be an upturn that may bring production right back up to where...
There was not much in Cheaper by the Dozen to excite the critics when it appeared last January. It was just a story about a father with twelve children, written by two of his children a quarter-century after his death. Last week it was riding at the top of U.S. bestseller lists...
...Good Naked Eye. The book is as bland and amiable as Dad Gilbreth's rejoinder, a sometimes hilarious, sometimes tiresome story of life in the first quarter of the century. Yet nothing between the book's covers is as remarkable as its runaway bestselling...