Word: half
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Surging out of the stadium, a majority of the 54,000 football fans remarked: "Harmon is the greatest football player since Red Grange." But Grand Mogul Yost, who had seen many a star in his half century of football, went further back. Said he: "The greatest since Willie Heston...
...heel in a concentration camp. Last week Professor Domagk discreetly referred to his Government the question of what to do about his award, murmured: "Even if I don't receive the money, the honor of being named is a most agreeable surprise." A less agreeable surprise to a half-dozen other scientists who had their hopes was the Nobel committee's announcement that, on account of World War II, the other 1939 prizes were withheld - possibly until next year, probably for good...
...must come out and claim our rights. We must deserve and get them. The day is past for a hard-of-hearing person to cling to solitude and slink through the world missing half of life because of a false sense of shame. So put on a hearing aid. Wear it with pride, not as a badge of disgrace!" Thus croaked deafened Novelist Rupert Hughes to fellow members of the American Society for the Hard of Hearing who met in Manhattan last week. On his own lapel he proudly wore one of his several electrical hearing aids...
...enough, the Lancet prescribed one-quarter to two grains of ephedrine sulphate at bedtime, depending on the child's age and bed-wetting capacities. "Tincture of belladonna is useful . . . given in amounts of ten minims [drops] for the younger child, and 15 minims for the older, half an hour before bedtime. The dose is increased weekly by five minims until eneuresis stops...
...utility investment (exclusive of TVA and other Government spending) recovered to only $450,000,000. One reason for expanding power sales is that today every installation by industry of high-powered modern machinery adds huge wholesale loads to electric consumption. With a possible boom at hand and more than half of U. S. machinery still well over ten years old (and not using as much juice as new units), if industry begins to modernize on a big scale the utilities may have to step lively to keep...