Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...till-now look lean forward expectantly. Dumpy ladies in basic black sit corset-upright and clutch stout, thick purses; the men from Seventh Avenue flick at their silver-white ties, exchanging grunted comments. The babble quickly hushes as the first model appears, and upon each face falls a stolid mask of calculated indifference, for any flicker will betray the spectator's interest to watching competitors...
...maturity period of bonds was then cut from ten years to nine years, eight months. The new plan would cut maturity to eight years, eleven months, and pay 3% interest after only three years. (The holder will not get the 3¼% unless he holds the bond till maturity.) A similar rate increase will be made on Series H bonds, which are sold in denominations of $500 and more, with semiannual interest payments. Series J and K bonds, sold in denominations up to $100,000, would be discontinued, because big investors are now more interested in marketable Government bonds...
...goes mullocking about the outback with gully-rakers, the boy don't seem to have a bolter's. But they find him, and tell him his crimes were a furphy, and that the real spieler, that gazob at the pub, dropped his bundle and smoked for Sydney till the bible-basher got the leg-rope on him. In the end, of course, a pongo cobber shouts Smiley a bike, and everything is bokker. Got the flaming drill...
HANOVER, N.H., Feb. 16--The varsity hockey team went into undisputed first place in the Ivy League tonight at Davis Rink by inundating second place Dartmouth with five goals in the first seven minutes of play, waiting till the tough Green defense got tired, and then pouring in three more scores midway through the third period. The final score...
...Dartmouth will have to adopt a "wait-till-next-year" attitude which is often a rather unrealistic one but which, in this case, has a strong justification. The top four players from this year's squad, all of whom showed very well against their Harvard opponents, will return next season, as will two other members of the first nine...