Word: quarterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drivers are not necessarily beginners. With only 850 examiners to deal with the flood of applications for licenses (last year a record 1,345,832 applied), there is a constant backlog of a quarter-million unlicensed drivers. The L-plate army is growing. In less than two years nearly half the 2,000,000 Britons who took driver's tests flunked them, many for the second and third time. All Britain cheered last month when 39-year-old Derek Brown passed his test: he had been driving with L plates for 22 years and failed twelve previous exams...
Over 70 per cent of the undergraduate body favors extension of Friday evening parietal hours, according to a recent Student Council-sponsored poll. In the survey, taken in the Houses and among Freshmen, only one quarter of the students did not favor any change in parietal hours...
...mile, Benjamin had the aid of a new opponent--half-miler Art Cahn, running his first race at the mile distance. Cahn stayed with Benjamin through a 61.0 quarter and a 2:06 880, and he even passed his teammate momentarily midway in the third lap. But Benjamin pulled away, practically sprinting the entire last lap, and finished 75 yards in front...
...pools, priced from $2,800, expect sales to top $10 million. For the nation's largest pool-equipment maker, Swimquip, Inc. of El Monte, Calif., the torrent of 1959 business has come so fast that all materials allocated for the first half were used up in the first quarter. Said President William O. Baker: "This year the business has gone crazy...
Holmes then cut through the Bulldog line and, as he was tackled, passed out to Charlie Rowe, who ran the remaining yards for the try, completing one of the most classic three quarter movements of the year...