Word: set
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ones in their accounting books. Last week Loew's (MGM) reported earnings of $1.08 per share for the 28 weeks ended March 12, a gain of almost 1,000% over a year earlier. United Artists Corp. announced that it boosted revenues 20% and earnings 30% for 1958 to set new records. In 1959, higher earnings have been reported by Warner Bros., National Theatres, Inc., 20th Century-Fox and Columbia...
...Life Lost. Eventually, the ice began to break up in 30-ft. swells. Shackleton ordered his crazed, frostbitten men into the boats, and after a week somehow managed to make a landfall-the first in 497 days-on tiny, tide-swept Elephant Island. Then with five men, he set off on one of the most remarkable small-boat voyages ever recorded. In 14 days he sailed a 22-ft. boat 800 miles through incessant gales and 90-ft. high waves to the west coast of South Georgia. Impossible? But there was the next leg of the journey: scrambling 29 miles...
Calvin plus Savonarola. There Hung set up regal headquarters and proclaimed: "The New Jerusalem ft the present Nanking." The advance guard of his army rolled to within 100 miles of Peking but never captured the Manchu capital. For the next eleven years Hung's Nanking was ruled with the puritanical fanaticism of Calvin's Geneva and Savonarola's Florence. The decapitated heads of the Decalogue-breakers hung above the city's gates. Adulterers were wrapped in oil-soaked cloth, and set aflame. Hung himself maintained a harem that grew to 88 wives and concubines, but defended...
...only did Dyke Benjamin's attempt for a University mile record fall short, but the Crimson ace was forced to take second to teammate Jed Fitzgerald, who set another meet record with...
...varsity field event squad turned in a brilliant performance. John Bronstein set a meet mark in winning the discus with a 158 ft., 3 3/4 in. toss, and shot putter Hank Abbot broke another record with his 50 ft., 3 in. heave. Stan Doten came through with an excellent 151 ft., 9 1/4 in. throw to take second in the discus, and Steve Cohen put the shot 48 ft., 6 in., his best ever, to beat out Princeton's Bill Fisher for second place...