Word: rationality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scheiner, who demonstrated fine control on both these outings, will hopefully reduce the ration of walks distributed lately by Crimson pitchers. Varsity opponents have drawn 16 free passes in the last two games...
...consumes 55% of the free world's oil. it has only 15% of the free world's reserves, enough to last a dozen years at current production rates. As consumption rises, the U.S. must depend increasingly on foreign oil if it wants to maintain even that slim ration...
master, Morphy. He eclipsed such comparative greybeards as Samuel Reshevsky, 46, and Arthur Bisguier, 28, to win the U.S. title. The Fédération Internationale des Echecs made a special gesture of naming him an International Master of Chess. Said Bobby last week in his adolescent whine: "They shoulda made me a Grand Master." Win, Win, Win. "None of the great ones ever accomplished so much so early," says Hans Kmoch, secretary of the Manhattan Chess Club, where Bobby practices. The son of parents who were divorced when he was two, Bobby grew up under his mother...
...year-old Korean boy named Kim Choon II was nabbed by a guard inside the Eighth Army's aircraft maintenance center at Ascom City, 15 miles west of Seoul. He had broken into noncommissioned officers' quarters, pocketed a traveling clock, cigarette lighter, flashlight, two PX ration books, $6 worth of scrip. He was frog-marched to the guardroom, where a group of U.S. officers and enlisted men, irked by 20 burglaries in six weeks, decided to teach Kim a lesson...
...passion for Peanuts unites such varied readers as Poet Carl Sandburg, General Motors' President Harlow Curtice, and a dozen Navymen at the South Pole who crowd around a bulletin board each day for their Peanuts ration. The sparely drawn strip is included as a comment on mid-century mores in a historical textbook published by George Washington University. Peanuts earned its paterfamilias, Minnesota-born Artist Charles Monroe Schulz, the Cartoonists' Society's annual Reuben Award. Last week the editors of Yale's humorous monthly Record twined ivy in young (35) Charles Schulz's laurels...