Word: quarterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed just another way of keeping Franco in the doghouse. He was convinced that Franco had never been as black as he had been painted, anyhow. "How can we do better than to make an ally of a country which has carried the war against communism for the past quarter of a century?" he asked. Besides, suggested McCarran, getting down to business, the U.S. might be able to sell Spain some surplus cotton...
...Coffee. Brazil has natural riches to match her size. Her great Volta Redonda steel plant-South America's largest-feeds off a quarter of the earth's known iron deposits, heavily concentrated in & around the fabulous "iron mountain" of Itabira. Brazil also has significant deposits of most of the other minerals useful to man. She ranks fourth among the world's independent nations in hydroelectric potential. Geologists estimate that oil-bearing formations lie beneath a quarter of her sparsely settled 3,286,170 square miles of territory...
...same time, co-coaches Pat Lister and Ed Callanan selected forward John Caroy as the "most valuable player" of the 1949 team and named Captain Joe Eaton, a three-quarter back, as runner-up. In appreciation of their services, both coaches were also voted "full colors...
Emmet, a first year Law student, fulfilled the expectations of Weld and of Newell, where he rowed on the varsity eight last year, by winning the three-quarter mile senior singles race. Reeling out a long, powerful stroke with a slow, lazy recovery to the half-mile mark, Emmet raised the stroke to 35 per minute on the last half-mile to outspurt Homer Zink, quarter-mile ace, by a boat length. The time: 5:10.0, the second best course time ever...
...junior singles, Dave White outclassed all his competitors. Slight-built White moved off from a strong, heavy field at around 28 strokes per minute to win by eight boat lengths over second place Charlie Rheault in 5:24.6 in a three-quarter mile race...