Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...design of Harvard Stadium, which has practically half of its seating capacity in the deep bowls behind the end zones, is one undeniable reason why the H.A.A.'s task of alloting seats is such a thankless one. But the confusion, the disappointment, the hard feelings, that accompanied distribution of seats for last fall's football games stemmed in part from archaic methods and inefficiency within the H.A.A. itself. Investigations conducted by the Student Council and the Crimson disclosed that students were annoyed by the reselling of turned-in tickets in the cheering section to non-University purchasers, and by lack...
...dusty country road near Kempen in the British zone (the story went), a wasted woman struggled under a heavy rucksack toward the Ruhr. Pastor X stopped her, guessed what she was carrying, said: "You have been lucky to find so many potatoes, my good woman. Many visitors come to our district from the Ruhr and return empty-handed...
...Stettin they will fetch a good high price. Most everything is scarce in Poland nowadays. Take sewing-machine needles. They are much better than gold or precious stones. We sent 2,000,000 to Warsaw recently. We buy them for 2½ marks a package in the British zone, mostly through doctors who get interzonal passes easily and like to make some money; then in Poland we sell them for nine zlotys. Nine zlotys buys 4½ pounds of butter over there, which we can sell in Germany for 1,350 marks. It does not take long to get rich...
Live & Let Live. Because viruses move in a twilight zone between life and inanimate matter, scientists used to think that they might represent the primitive beginnings of life. Many experts now believe that it is the other way around. One of the world's top virus authorities, Australia's Dr. Frank M. Burnet, a champion of the evolution-in-reverse theory, contends that viruses may once have been bacteria and that they are steadily degenerating into more simple forms...
...organized in 1940 by Adman Michael M. Sillerman, who found that "one-third of the nation, 32 million people who live in communities of 50,000 and under, are in a twilight zone that is only partly covered by the four big networks." Sillerman saw a virgin market for national advertising. He moved in to provide the small stations in these areas with a sizable schedule of transcribed shows (including sustainers). With transcriptions, KBS saved its stations the high cost of network wire lines, cut advertising rates to less than half the charges of the wire networks...