Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what does Harvard proffer one who for more than a quarter of a century has gladly learned, and gladly taught? It is my belief that Harvard hoards on its campus essential tangible and intangible values that renew and sustain one's faith in an institution of higher learning. A long period of learning and teaching has carried me to a multitude of college campuses. Some of them have been, and are, top ranking universities and colleges; but, reflecting upon the lot, I would pronounce Harvard the noblest campus of them...
...last November," shouted Long. "They did not expect us to simply sit here and vote for the Eisenhower program . . . However, we are told when we consider these bills that in order to make the bills vetoproof, we must pare them down ... to the point where they have about one-quarter of the significance we intended. As a result the bills are 90% Eisenhower bills and 10% Democratic amendments...
...curtain, carpenters hustled about frantically shoring up scenery. But on opening night, Puccini's grand old horse opera went off with scarcely a hitch, moved a capacity audience to reverberating applause. The heroes of the evening, in the eyes of Director Graf, were without question the Western quarter horses. "They don't sing, they don't argue, they take directions," said he, "and they act very well...
...year and growing so rapidly that many Washington economists now expect it to pass the half-trillion mark before mid-1960. Behind this confidence was the economy's amazing expansion so far this year. Estimates last week of the growth that took place in the April-June quarter showed that the gross national product annual rate rose $12 billion over the first quarter, $5 billion more than expected. Added to a $14 billion gain in the January-March quarter, this made a rise in the annual rate of $26 billion in six months, close to the $30 billion...
Wherever they looked, Government economists saw almost breathtaking change. Personal income jumped $29 billion over the second quarter of 1958 to an annual rate of $380 billion, a new high. Industrial output rose 22 percentage points over June 1958, to 154% of the 1947-49 averages. As consumers opened their purses, retail trade in the first six months jumped $7.5 billion to a new high of $102.5 billion. In the process, it gave a long-delayed boost to many an industry that earlier watched the parade of recovery go by. TV setmakers, for example, expected 1959 shipments to exceed...