Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harris also warned of a "B.A. and Ph. D. proletariat' if the Commission's proposed 1960 enrollment of 4,600,000 materializes. The evidence shows that "a college graduate is not generally content with employment in any but the favored occupations, which could not absorb even one-quarter of the Commission's fifteen million junior college graduates of 1968 and one-tenth of the thirty to forty-five millions of four-year-college graduates...
...Crimson got off to a fast start in the first quarter and hold a 13-2 lead before six minutes of the game had elapsed. During the second period Tufts rallied weakly and by halftime it had whittled, the Harvard lead down to seven points...
...Good Things. At 18, she was a beautiful young woman with shining eyes and jet black hair. She wanted the "good things in life." In the fall of 1943, she began to go about with one Vincenzo Antonelli, a notorious young Fascist street brawler, who roamed the Jewish quarter with a gang of toughs, plundering shops and beating up stray Jews. Then the Nazi SS (which ruled Rome) started raiding the ghetto. Whole families were sent to concentration camps...
...Learned How." In a quarter-century of the game, Ben Hogan had probably hit more golf balls than any man alive. Then one day in 1947 while he was walking out to a practice tee in Fort Worth, a brand new idea occurred to him. He hit a few shots in what was for Ben a slight change of style. He had lost the hook (which golfers say always rolls till it reaches trouble) and found a fade (a slight drift to the right) which he could control with great accuracy...
Mikkola was referring specifically to the middle distance events, the 600, 1000, and three-quarter mile. Not a single Harvard entry scored in these races. As in last month's meet between the three colleges, the Crimson's big wallop was supplied by its traditionally virile weightmen...