Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...close win over Exeter Saturday gave added proof to the fact that it is the middle distance runners and the milers who are the real core of the team. It is in the quarter, the half, and the mile that the Crimson has the depth which has resulted in clean sweeps in these events time after time...
...slightly to $127,802,860, but rising costs cut its net from $8,155,176 to $7,593,797. Even the airline and aircraft industries, which had long been ailing, were perking up. Prime example: Douglas Aircraft Co., which had earned only $23,862 in 1948's first quarter, this year earned $2 million, the result of rearmament contracts and a cost-cutting campaign. American Airlines, which lost $4.2 million in the 1948 quarter, cut its loss...
...second time in eight days, the freshman crew out rowed MIT by about half a length. This week, however, the time for the mile-and-three-quarter course was 9:4, almost one minute better than the 10:19 registered by the same crews April...
...jumped to a quick lead at the start with a "windmill" 40-beat stroke. Harvard and MIT began with a 36 cadence and overhauled the inexperienced and disunited BU boat within a quarter of a mile. Then Harvard stroke Louis MeCagg eased the count...
...seemed to be thoroughly outclassed throughout the game. Their attack depended on a set on only average forwards and a better than average wing three-quarter, but these weapons were hardly enough to hold off the Rugby club. John Carey's forward play was picked as the outstanding feature of the Harvard attack...