Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...compensate for the additional time which the second weekly meeting will require, the experimental groups will meet only during certain times of the year--from the last week in September to the first in December, and from the first week in February to the third in March...
Other cars and drivers entered by the HMSC finished back in the field because of penalties. It was the sixth time in the past seven years that the HMSC has taken the speed championship at the Boston club's gymkhana. Last year, the Harvard entry finished second in the speed event, but won the touring championship...
Frantic Frank Lane, Cleveland's general manager, contributed to the general hilarity by firing and rehiring his long-suffering manager, Joe Gordon. Rankled by the Frantic One's abusive comments and second-guessing, the Flash quit the team as soon as the Indians were officially eliminated from the pennant race. A day later, Lane assembled reporters to introduce his new field boss--a fellow named Gordon, replete with raise and two-year contract...
Prediction: Tie for second place, 5-2 record, losses to Penn and Princeton...
...second story of any length is a piece by Elizabeth Sussman, a sophomore at Vassar, who took a writing course in Cambridge this summer. The Flavour of Mortality is concerned with two children adopted by a couple which lives from April to April in futile hope of the husband's promotion. The characters of the children are drawn with some subtlety; the boy's awkwardness and introspection are developed effectively, as are the main problems of the story--the uselessness of the parents' lives, and the quietly savage intensity of the boy's attempt to escape the "mortality...