Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd, which seldom gets noisy until the last quarter-mile of a race, sensed that the climax would come early and set up a swelling roar. Then, suddenly, it was all over. With Capot saving ground on the rail, he nosed ahead on the turn. Coaltown tried but could not keep up. Down the backstretch Capot's lead lengthened to two lengths, then to four. Brooks hit Coaltown only once, got no response, and did not punish him needlessly...
...market's rise was not as gravity-defying as it looked. It was solidly shored up by 1) the whopping third-quarter profits of many a corporation, and 2) an increasing tendency to pass some of these profits along to stockholders in the form of bigger dividends. Chrysler, for example, which had turned in a third-quarter net of $45.4 million v. $24.1 million in the 1948 period, raised its $1.25 quarterly dividend to $1.50. The stock went up 2⅛ points in the next day's trading, to a new 1949 high...
...Leverett line which, by outblocking and out-maneuvering the vaunted Gold Coast front, engineered the upset. The peak of the Bunny defensive play came late in the third quarter when the line froze an Adams threat on the Leverett four yard line...
Jalopies travel in second gear all the way because there is no pickup in third. They hit 45 to 50 miles an hour on a quarter mile tar track. Each driver has his own favorite technique, depending on his ability...
...state had to drill a quarter mile tunnel...