Word: fiftieth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Proof. Astronomer Struve believes that about one-fiftieth of these planets have had conditions on their surfaces that were favorable for the appearance of life. Assuming that life appears whenever conditions are right, Struve calculates that one billion (one-fiftieth) of the galaxy's 50 billion planets have life of some sort on them now. Not all life is thinking life, but Struve figures that between 1,000,000 and 10 million of the galaxy's billion inhabited planets have creatures on them that are just as intelligent as present day earthlings...
...exhibition, a traveling presentation of some of the collection's finest examples, celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Morgan Library in New York. Here is one of those exquisite philanthropies made possible by a successful application of the philosophy that the public be damned...
Jubilee dates from Radcliffe might have proved somewhat persnickety that year, since they felt they had come of age: the 'Cliffe was about to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. The Edgeworth Tobacco Company, realizing that this attitude was indicative of national womanhood, kept cheering up Harvard men by telling them that, no matter what else the women had taken away, they could take away his pipe. "She'll never smoke a pipe," the company crowed in countless CRIMSON ads; that item is "one pet diversion our little friends keep their fingers...
Windbreakers would not cure Harvard tennis, but they would be a step to help a seemingly hopeless disease: there are too few courts; there are no clay courts for everyone's use. The teams, about one one hundred-fiftieth of Harvard, alone can touch a Harvard clay court, and Leverett's one court may give way to house-building; the courts are spaced too awkwardly close to one another; the courts are severely cracked...
Electronic equipment to flash to earth data on such matters as cosmic rays and gravitational pull will account for 80% of the weight. The skin of the hollow ball will be one-fiftieth of an inch thick. Jutting from the sphere's surface will be four collapsible antennas and a coupling device that will release the moon from the last of the three rockets needed to blast it into space (TIME...