Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three-quarter moon rose over Europe last week as serene and remote as ever, but dropping faster and faster through its gravitational field was a small, alien object: a metal sphere blazoned with the hammer and sickle of the Soviet Union. Perhaps no one will ever know what happened when it hit. It may have dug an invisibly small crater among the natural meteor craters on the moon's scarred face. Perhaps it splashed a brief fountain of dust. Whatever it did, the moon could no longer serve as a symbol of unreachability. Man had sent an object from...
...slump, 16 months in the 1948 slowdown; personal income recovered peak levels in 14 months v. 16 months in the other two postwar recessions. Last week the Commerce Department announced that spending for new plant and equipment will hit an annual clip of $35.4 billion in the fourth quarter (against a 1957 peak rate of $38 billion and a 1958 slump low of $30 billion); many crystal-bailers see a pace close to $40 billion in 1960. "Here's what will happen next," says Vice President Russell H. Metzner of Cleveland's Central National Bank. "The cost...
While over a quarter of the students at Harvard College are in some way identified with Judaism, only a tenth of them are members of Hillel. The others hold a wide variety of political and religious views, according to the questionnaire, and a large number indicated that their ideas were still in a state of flux. Some of their answers indicated a confusion, or at least a transition in many attitudes towards religion...
...graffito, which the artist and his 15-year-old son Peter completed in one day late in August, is 30 feet wide and 16 feet high. Working behind a team of plasterers who spread a quarter inch of white stucco over the black wall, Nivola first outlined his figures in paint with a thin brush. Then he and his son filled in the outline with solid blues, yellows and orange. Finally Nivola scratched deep lines through the colors and plaster to the black wall...
...Program has attracted over 300 applicants, fully a quarter of the incoming Class. Late applications may raise the total still further, although no further solicitation will be made during registration week, Wilcox said...