Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past nine years Paul Sigmund has divided his time between the U.S. and the rest of the world, spending a good half of this period in Europe, partly as a scholar, partly as a soldier, one year as NSA vice president, and almost all the time as a tourist. The rest of his time was put in here at Cambridge, culminating in a Ph.D. in political theory this February, an appointment as instructor in government, and the elevation to the role of Quincy senior tutor for the coming year with the compensation (as if any were necessary) of a plush...
Sigmund returned to Europe from Ceylon, with steps in the trigger-happy Near East ("It was Suez time"). The Air Force then extended an invitation ("I had a ROTC commission from college"), and he spend a year and a half ("Just long enough to learn to ski") with Air Force Intelligence in Germany and France...
Dean Kerby-Miller also revealed that scholarship loan funds received by the Annex under the 1958 National Defense Education Act are being used this term only for prospective teachers. The act provides special benefits for this group of borrowers by reducing total long-term payments of half the initial amount loaned...
...highly specialized country depending mainly on exports of fish and timber to balance its foreign trade, Finland is peculiarly susceptible to economic pressure from the Soviet Union, for Russia supplies more than half the Finnish foreign markets, and holds many of their foreign loans. The effects that this pressure can have became graphically clear last fall...
...poll of 30 freshmen, about half felt that House food is better than that at the Union; the other half, however, could see little difference. Two freshmen called the Union's food superior to that at the Houses...