Word: setups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into the pound, because it was worth that weight in silver. Similarly, it took 240 pennies to make a pound because that was the number of pennies that weighed a pound.* Shillings joined Offa's awful system in the 16th century, and that basically formed the current currency setup-though such denominations as the florin (2 shillings), half crown (2½ shillings), guinea (21 shillings) and sovereign (approximately 3 guineas) came along at various times...
...handling the impossible military problems and improbable personality of Douglas MacArthur, Marshall was superb. A minefield of difficulties had to be threaded before MacArthur could be moved from the Philippines to Australia and establish a new international command on the ruins of the shattered U.S.-British-Dutch-Australian setup. He had to respect MacArthur's legitimate pride and ignore the inexplicable pettiness that moved MacArthur to fight against a Medal of Honor for his comrade, Jonathan Wainwright, destined for a Japanese prison camp. Throughout, Marshall never wavered in his belief in MacArthur's military genius...
Harvard coach Cooney Weiland will stick with his sophomore goalie, Bill Diercks, in the Crimson's home opener. The remainder of the lineup will also resemble the setup Weiland employed over the weekend, with captain Dennis McCullough, Ben Smith, and Kent Parrot on the first line, and Bob Carr and Charlie Scammon starting at defense...
...puck hit the boards and rebounded directly back over goalie Bill Diercks's head. Wing Ralph Ferris couldn't have asked for a better setup for the first of his two goals on the evening...
Sectarian Ambiance. By contrast, Maryland permits state-taxpayer suits -and starting in 1962, the Maryland general assembly created a state college-aid program that parallels the federal setup. Four bills provided $2,500,000 for new facilities at four church-related colleges-Hood (United Church of Christ), Western Maryland (Methodist), Notre Dame and St. Joseph's (Roman Catholic). All of the bills were challenged by 13 Maryland taxpayers and the Horace Mann League, an association of 500 public-school educators. The state court's decision, they hoped, would, by inference, hold the federal programs unconstitutional...