Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Democrat John C. Shershow '61, countered the Republican statements with statistics. Eighty per cent of the families in the United States, he said, earn only one half of the total income...
...Sabbatical requires that you find your own replacement in order to leave," he continued, "and I arranged for Sauer to be put on half-time teaching duty for the spring term so he could run the office...
Passed last year, the act authorizes more than $1 billion in Federal grants over a four year period. Its half dozen main programs are designed to indentify, and help establish, each student's abilities; to improve instruction in science, mathematics, and languages; to provide more college teachers, more loans for college students, and to stimulate educational research...
Bold Journey (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Around the world in half an hour with Seattle Schoolteacher Billy-Marie Gannon, who won the trip in a contest pronouncing her boldest journeyer of them...
...trouble is that Tati is not content to be merely a comedian. He has developed all sorts of crypto-Chaplinesque rationalizations about the deeper significance of Monsieur Hulot-"modern man ... at the mercy of objects . . . enmeshed by circumstances." The film, as a result of these lucubrations, is at least half an hour too long, and in the length it fails to find a rhythmic respiration that might have shaped so many disparate episodes into a breathing whole. Too bad that the great clowns always want to play Hamlet...