Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sales of room coolers alone were up 100% over last year's first quarter. The selling period for conditioners, once as brief as the Bikini season, is now being extended throughout the year as more and more consumers think of airconditioning, with its filtered air, as a year-round necessity rather than a summertime luxury...
...brightest prospects for a long-term boom are in central residential systems that provide year-round heating and cooling of houses. Installed cost: $1,000 for a six-room General Electric unit, v. $1,500 in 1952. Last year 130,000 central units were installed in U.S. homes, up 68.5% in one year. This year, central-unit sales are expected to leap another 23% to 160,000 units. Moreover, some 25 million U.S. homeowners who have central heating plants are potential customers for built-in airconditioning...
Dunster House became the first Inter-House Debate champion by virtue of its undefeated record in four preliminary rounds of a round-robin tournament on Friday. The tourney climaxed the Inter-House Debate Council's first season of activity at the college...
Thirteen passengers must be found before tomorrow's deadline if the so-called "Europe Cooperative" project to charter a plane for a round-trip flight to the Continent is to succeed, announced Victor R. Besso '57, co-chairman of the enterprise...
...have enough people on the waiting list to fill the 13 vacancies," Besso said, "if we can only get them to commit themselves in time." The offer of the round trip passage for $320 has been enlarged to include Radcliffe students as well as members of the University...