Word: timed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That left him eight hours and forty minutes to devote to pure lucubration. Vag was pleased--this time he'd planned it all very carefully. He remembered his hour exams last year when he'd had to read almost a thousand pages the night before. This year, though, he'd been unusually thorough; he had only one book left...
...Should I stretch out or sit up?" Vag asked himself. "I might as well compromise." He sat down on a soft red chair at the far end of the room, put his feet up on a coffee table, and began to read. "If I study without underlining this time," he thought, "if should improve my memory...
...nearly 11 o'clock, and Vag had read one chapter. The time had finally come, he told himself, to get down to work. "But first, I'll look at my roommate's Dali print for inspiration." Each of his roommate's had wanted to write a poem to the picture, and now Vag tried to work...
France's Western allies have been puzzled by these antics also and by de Gaulle's slow-down tactics on the summit conference. The French nuclear test in the Sahara is going to be embarrassing at a time when serious consideration is being given to disarmament. The moving of air bases from France to West Germany was strategically inconvenient...
...weeks ago coach Steve Sebo of the then-unbeaten Penn football team told a press conference, "The Ivy League is too well balanced to feel safe at any time. The race is just as close as the next game...