Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the head resident of a Radcliffe dormitory tore open a plain envelope, addressed simply to "Bertram Hall." There was no explanatory letter inside, only a half dozen business cards labelled "Male Escort Bureau... escorts for all legitimate occasions." The card promised "confidential service" for a minimum...
When one girl dared to dissent, pointing to an alleged "one-half the dormitory" which stayed home on Saturday nights, she was promptly silenced. "If a girl wants a date for Saturday night she can have one by Saturday afternoon," her more confident colleagues asserted...
...scope of BMEWS is rated by Air Force men as "something fantastic." While construction work by Army engineers goes on at Thule and Clear, Air Force engineers, electronics contractors and subcontractors are building monster radar screens, each half again as long as a football field, tough enough to stand against 185-knot gales. The screens-four at Thule, three at Clear-will detect Communist missiles along a direct line of sight tangential to the earth after the missiles have been airborne for five minutes of their 30-or-so-minute nights toward U.S. targets. Then smaller radars inside mammoth...
...varsity fencing team finished eighth out of eleven schools in the first half of the Eastern Intercollegiate Fencing Championship at the Hotel Con-course Plaza in New York City yesterday...
...varsity swimming team gained second place, slightly behind Yale, after the first half of the 19th Annual Invitation Meet of the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League, held yesterday in the Payne Whitney Gymnasium at Yale. The 27 schools represented will wind up the tournament today...