Word: yardful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours of nighttime westerns weekly v. 3⅓ in Britain, 10 hours of private-eye shows v. 5 in Britain. And by comparison with such U.S. cut-'n'-shoots as Peter Gunn (see below), the British children's favorite thriller, gentlemanly Fabian of Scotland Yard, rarely fired a slug from pistol or bottle. The British sociologists still saw much room for improvement: better dramas outside the dog-cowboy-detective formulas, more attention to girls (half the audience). Meanwhile, as the London Daily Mirror's "Cassandra" put it: "The appalling mediocrity of most of the stuff that...
Winning every swimming event but the 100-yard free style, the Crimson did not ascend to great heights, but was strong and consistent enough to have literally no difficulty defeating the usually weak Engineers. Tech's Dave Cahlander, however, managed to break the existing M.I.T. three-meter board record, winning the diving with a total of 74.55 points...
Sophomore standout Bruce Hunter, entered only in the 220-yard freestyle, was the varsity's outstanding performer, displaying fine form and stamina in the switchover from his usual sprints...
...Perilman in the 100-yard butterfly, Gary Pildner in the 200-yard backstroke, and Bob Komenda in the 440-yard free-style all performed well enough to win rather easily. Komenda finished two laps ahead of one M.I.T. swimmer...
...Brooks stated that "I do feel we can take them." Fresh from an impressive win over Army last week, the Crimson will use essentially the same team that it started against the Cadets. Brooks mentioned the possibility of switching sophomore spinter Bruce Hunter from his normal 50 and 100-yard freestyle position to anchor man on both the medley and freestyle relays...