Word: medium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alsbury was followed by his brother George, 20, who drove a Chrysler Saratoga to second place in the fun and first place in the upper medium-price class, with an average of 56.7267 t.m.p.g. Third place in the sweepstakes went to a De Soto Firedome, which finished second in the upper-medium class at 56.4464 t.m.p.g. A Dodge Coronet 500 took first place in the low.medium-price class with 55.8920 t.m.p.g., and a Plymouth Belvedere won first place in the low-price field with 52.6211 t.m.p.g. But in straight mileage, regardless of weight, a Ford Fairlane showed the best performance...
...Medium-Price Class. Oldsmobile 88 Holiday, 19.5149 m.p.g., 52.7877 t.m.p.g.; Pontiac Chieftain, 20.4221 m.p.g., 50.2384 t.m.p.g.; Studebaker President' 19.9453 m.p.g., 44.8769 t.m.p.g...
...Upper Medium-Price Class. Oldsmobile 98 Holiday, 19.2164 m.p.g., 53.5177 t.m.p.g...
...Hawley, a medium-posh Connecticut prep school, the thoughts of youth are wrong, wrong thoughts, and the masters are "worn and cynical far beyond their years." Pupils are not, as at nearby Hotchkiss, "under oath" to abstain from smoking; Hawley's "deadly droops" (a Hotchkiss epithet) are merely forbidden this pleasure. For characters like Baxter (an outcast because he arrived from the West Coast, of all places, in a brown suit and porkpie hat) and for McGough (who suffers the crippling handicap of being the headmaster's son), there is only one thing to do at Hawley-defeat...
...noted that violins and violas of this type are made by only one U.S. manufacturer, Jackson-Guldan of Columbus, Ohio, which employs 30 production workers. To protect them, the Tariff Commission was willing to stir up West Germany, France and Italy, which supply most of the low-and medium-priced violins bought...