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Word: half (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Against Princeton, however, the story was completely different. With three and a half minutes left to play, the Crimson was down by two goals, 5 to 3, as the Tiger sextet played probably their finest game of the season. Dave Vietze's second score of the evening, coming at 16:34, put the visitors within striking distance...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Crimson Sextet Triumphs Easily | 2/24/1959 | See Source »

According to yesterday's unofficial estimates 348 of the 1102 students in the Class of 1962 made the fall term Dean's List, with 15 in Group 1. In addition, about half of the advanced standing students still residing in the Yard made the Dean's List...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deans Announce Freshman Ranks | 2/24/1959 | See Source »

...telephone man has installed 66,600,000 phones, more than half of the 117,800,000 in the world. Each day in the U.S., 245 million telephone conversations hum over the wires, more than 500 calls a year for every person. At any second of the business day, more than 2,000,000 people are talking on U.S. phones. What do they talk about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Voices Across the Land | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...demanding boss, but he softens visibly when he talks about the public-which he still considers his boss. "If anyone needs to be sobered up about his responsibilities in this job," he says, "he just has to realize what kind of people own stock in A. T. & T. Half of them are women, and many are widows. They depend on this thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Voices Across the Land | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

Unemployment remained the economy's weak spot. In January the number of jobless rose 616,000 to 4,724,000, the highest for the month since before World War II. But the increase was only about half the seasonal increase in jobless of January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Prices: Steady | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

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