Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things, traffic laws. Before the President's Conference on Highway Safety, Truman condemned lax state drivers' examination laws, including those of his own Missouri. "Terrible!" cried the President. "Why a man can go down to a drugstore [in Missouri] from an insane asylum and spend a quarter and get a license to drive anywhere in the state...
...your gold..." Cowder: He scorns my daughter's addresses! Freddie: Thus do I treat all dollar princesses! The Chorus: He won't consent? Extremely queer He must be mad, it's very clear. Alice (weeping): Oh the disgrace, I cannot bear it... Freddie (in lilting three-quarter time): Her every action confesses The fortune she is worth The proudest of dollar princesses- Is sometimes the poorest on earth...(Curtain...
Scott, who doubles in the 440 and 880, can also cover the ground. He has run the quarter in 48.8 and holds the British Army 400 meter record. "They say he has a very strong finish," Jaakko reports...
...Oxford-Cambridge team after its meet today at Princeton, where it goes against a combined Princeton, Cornell squad. Varsity Coach Jaakko Mikkola predicts this will be a close meet, as will the one here next week. "The Englishmen are good," he pointed out yesterday. Jaakko singled out quarter miler Angus Scott, sprinter John Wilkinson, and miler Roger Bannister as particularly outstanding...
...Scot of Cambridge will run in both the quarter and the half. He has been clocked at 49 flat in the 440. A 49.4 quarter by Jack Lohnes of Yale won the Crimson-Blue meet...