Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grandma Moses, Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth, sponsored touring Hallmark art exhibits across the U.S. He was told time and again that Sir Winston Churchill would never agree to have his paintings on greeting cards. Churchill was delighted, and Hallmark sold 4.5 million Churchill cards the very first year, about half the number of Hallmark's alltime bestseller-a cart loaded with pansies that is suitable for almost every occasion...
...hour and a half later, the two had bagged six ducks. Then Curtice sighted a low-flying flock, off to his left. He leveled on the lead duck and fired. At that instant. Anderson stood up, inexplicably lurched toward Curtice, and caught the full blast in his head.* "That's one of the things I can't understand," a haggard Harlow Curtice told a press conference the next day. "He may have stumbled. The ground was very uneven. I don't know why he didn't stay down...
...process until it was sure that it could produce the synthetics on a sustained commercial basis. While De Beers continued work on the project, G.E. was taking approximately 10% of the U.S. industrial-diamond market away from De Beers' natural industrial stones, indicated that it could supply half of the U.S. market for industrial diamonds. Synthetics are not only priced lower than natural stones, but manufacturers say that in many cases they are substantially more efficient...
...prodigious feat of analysis, narrative and condensation, Bertrand Russell has compressed the history of Western philosophy into 320 pages. (In a 1946 volume, he took nearly three times as much space.) As ground bait in the chilling stream of philosophic speculation, the publishers have sprinkled 500 illustrations, half of them in color, through this volume. From Thales (circa 624-546 B.C.), about whom little is known, to Whitehead and Wittgenstein, both of whom the author knew well, Russell tells something of the life as well as the ideas of the hundred-odd philosophers who have helped to make the mind...
...Marx, Author Russell demolishes the Red bogeyman not only for sociological or economic errors but for his faults in epistemology (theory of knowledge). Unfortunately, the power of logic stands somewhat diminished when Russell is bound to mention, almost as an afterthought, that "nearly half the world today is governed by states that put implicit trust in Marx's theories...