Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This afternoon's preliminary matches will be followed by the quarter-finals tonight, semi finals tomorrow afternoon, and finals tomorrow night. Scoring is on a 5-4-2-1 basis in each class...
...real fight. Then Judd assailed the State Department's long effort to sell China a coalition government. Said Judd: "The Chinese knew then, and it took us a long time to learn, that coalition with Communists means the death of the government." After an hour and a quarter of it, Acheson's icy diplomatic composure failed him. His face flamed, then whitened. He picked up his papers, stuffed them into his case and snapped: "We are not getting anywhere." That was how the Republicans felt about...
...father of rocketing, patented such a missile, but never succeeded in building one. During World War II, the Germans toyed with the idea. One of their antiaircraft rockets, the unsuccessful Rheintochter (Rhinemaiden), was pushed into the air by a booster that dropped off after rising a mile and a quarter. But no one shot a multi-stage rocket to really high altitudes...
...Friend Roger Burlingame (Harvard '13) remembers that John would "caricature his classmates in a way that scared us when we got through laughing." When H. M. Pulham, Esquire was published in 1941 (an acid picture of a Har-vardman being smothered by Boston convention), his classmates of a quarter-century before had every right to become thoughtful, if not scared...
Henry Foster, number one Crimson squash player, was eliminated in the quarter final of the National Intercollegiate Squash Tournament at Princeton Saturday afternoon by Army's Charley Oliver...