Word: save
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson gave a more impressive display of Eastern hockey the next night. With an upset in sight, Harvard save up three goals late in the game is the Gophers scored their fifth straight win. Goals by Dave Morse, Ikauniks and defenseman Dave John- ston put the Crimson on top, 3 to 1, after two periods...
From the U.S., which adopted decimal coinage in 1792, to South Africa, which made the change in 1961, 145 countries have decimalized their currency; Britain is the last major bastion of currency confusion. In school alone, according to an Australian survey, decimalization would save teachers up to 50% of the time they now take to teach children mathematics. In addition, English children often have to memorize the medieval apothecaries' scale (20 grains to a scruple), linear measure (40 rods to the furlong), dry measure (4 pecks to the bushel) and liquid measure (52.5 imperial gallons to a hogshead...
...Rather touched" when a British stripling agreed to defend him in a school debate over which of four prominent men should be jettisoned to save a sinking balloon, Billionaire U.S. Oilman J. Paul Getty promptly supplied his paladin with a suggested brief. Unaware that his hypothetical fellow travelers were to be Fidel Castro, British Playwright John Osborne and Philosopher-Demagogue Bertrand Russell, Getty wrote: "I am only 13 stone [182 Ibs.] and therefore probably lighter than the rest. If there are other millionaires there, I'm probably the youngest at 68, so the oldsters should go." Finally came...
...something to do after the housework. When asked what artist of the past she admired, she said. "I've always liked Currier & Ives." Her paintings had the same nostalgic naivete; they were, as she put it, "Old-Timey." Sometimes she would do four paintings at a time to save paint ("I do the blue for one sky and then the three other skies"), and following her own rules, she always worked from the top down, filling in the fields and farmhouses, the toylike trees and stubby little figures simply by instinct. Before long, she was big business, with...
...fact that Kress never married the boss's daughter. Born in Cherryville. Pa., in 1863, he grew up a bookish boy who at 17 landed a teaching job in Slatington, six miles away. Kress's salary was only $25 a month, but he managed to save up enough money to open a novelty store in Nanticoke. Before long, he had a wholesale house in Wilkes Barre. By the time he died in 1955, there were 264 Kress stores from Manhattan to Honolulu...