Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pegler Annual Award of Journalistic Infamy, with the nomination committee to include the poundmaster and chief plumbing inspector of the District of Columbia, and the prize plaque to be "a rectangular shield transversed by a double cross, surmounted by a turkey buzzard . . . with jackal couchant in the left upper quarter and the symbolic figures of Truth and Decency outraged supine in the lower right quarter...
...turf champions. Last month in Lexington, Ky., breeders of the Thoroughbred Club of America decided to do something about it. They agreed on a plan to standardize rankings of the nation's top-flighters with a system of handicap weights based on performances at a mile-and-a-quarter. It was to be called the Yardstick...
Houston decisioned Brown's John Chernak, 9 to 0, in the preliminaries yesterday afternoon and Lawrence MacEly, of Franklin and Marshall, 9 to 3, the quarter-finals last night. He is assured of at least a fourth place in the heavyweight class...
Buddy King and Captain Bob Claflin survived the preliminaries but both were beaten in the quarter-finals. Barton Downes, of Navy, stopped King with half-nelson and inside crotch at 5:25 and Jim Jackson, Lehigh, threw Claflin in a figure four...
...game, close for one quarter, turned into a rout as Matthews South swept to a 26 to 10 half-time lead. Joe Shaw paced the victors with 13 points. Members of the winning team will receive silver medals for their victory...