Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...watch the language. It lives and changes constantly, with the development of new words and expressions and new uses for old words and expressions. Keeping up with the language in this week's TIME: aminotriazole. Bad for Thanksgiving. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Cranberry Boggle (Contd.). crotchet. A quarter note. See Music, Family Orchestra...
...bare 2 yds. away from the quarter back, returning his stare in challenge, waits the key man of the proud New York Giant defense: Middle Linebacker Sam Huff (6 ft. 1 in., 230 lbs.), a confident, smiling fighter fired with a devout desire to sink a thick shoulder into every ball carrier in the National Football League...
TRADE WITH REDS is picking up considerably as a result of Moscow fair displays of U.S. goods. Third-quarter exports to Reds jumped to $11.4 million v. $7.2 million in second quarter...
After a prolonged skein of low-scoring contests, the Crimson met Wesleyan near the end of Ocotber. Entering the last period with a 1-0 lead, the varsity proceeded to score three times in the fourth quarter. Even the first tally was the cause for mild elation, since it was the first of the season for Sweeney, who certainly had one coming. Dick McIntosh led off the fourth-period scoring, followed two and one-half minutes later by Sam Rodd on a head-in. After Rodd's goal, the varsity bench went wild; the previously injured Marsh McCall...
Lube Job. In Tucson, Ariz., after he was flagged down at a school-zone crossing by an eleven-year-old girl school guard who carefully jotted down his license number, startled Motorist Joe Chin was told: "I'll forget all about it for a quarter...