Word: tennesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other major sport is the spectator so intimately connected with the events of the game. Players wander among the crowd, the stands are within ten feet of the field, and the absence of protective equipment renders nearly every participant's expression visible to the observers...
Gene Robertson hadn't left his room for three days. In fact, he only got out of bed to exercise (touch your toes ten times, do seven push-ups) and to eat Chinese food which his roommate brought...
...Yale University, Saarinen (Yale '34) quickly discovered that the standard vernacular of modern architecture would not do. First, the site was odd and irregular. Furthermore, the new colleges would have to exist cheek by jowl with two of Yale's most determinedly pseudo-Gothic structures: the ten-story Payne Whitney Gymnasium and the Yale Graduate School. Talking with students, Saarinen discovered that undergraduates want their rooms to be as individual as possible, decided that the rooms should be "as random as those in an old inn rather than as standardized as those in a modern motel." In addition...
...seasonally adjusted basis, a 7.8% gain over last year's level and the first time October sales have burst through the $18 billion mark. In November's first week, sales in U.S. department stores were running 5% ahead of last year. Retail sales for the first ten months of 1959 total $179.9 billion, 9% above 1958. At that rate, they will push well over $200 billion by year's end, a new alltime record...
Under the rules only hardtop sedans and coupes with engines no bigger than 3,500 cc. could enter, and all V-8s were excluded. Lined up at the start in ten classes were cars from the U.S., Britain, France. Germany and Sweden. The entries that held all eyes were the new Chevrolet Corvairs and Ford Falcons, both competing in the same class (2,001 to 2,500 cc.) and each with top drivers and pit crews. Chevy made it a major effort, with five cars and a 25-man pit crew sponsored by the Denver Chevrolet Dealers Association...