Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet Union from gaining an H-bomb monopoly. After 1953, as Eisenhower's AEChairman, Strauss worsened his standing with liberals by arguing for continuation of nuclear tests until the Russians agreed to 1) a halt in nuclear-arms production and 2) a villainproof inspection system. This battle he half lost when the President agreed to a year's uninspected trial suspension provided that the Russians agree, too (TIME, Sept...
Benjamin Fletcher Wright, a redheaded Texan with an easy smile and casual manner, had spent more than half of his life at Harvard when he agreed, in 1949, to make the move to Northampton to become the fifth president (all of them have been males) of Smith College...
Dyke Benjamin fulfilled Crimson hopes, running to a distinguished victory and a record time of 25:21 on the Franklin Park course. Yale's Bachrach trailed Benjamin and Jed Fitzgerald for half of the race, but finished nearly half a minute behind the Crimson captain...
...behind the leaders, the real race took place. The Crimson had been instructed to break up Yale's top five runners, and until the last half mile of the race, they had succeeded in spitting up the leaders. At this point, however, when the Crimson runners were feeling the pace, Yale's Carroll and Morrison slowly moved up into fourth and seventh places, passing the point-makers. Fitzgerald, who had run himself out following Benjamin eary in the race, fell back to ninth, giving the harriers sixth, eighth, ninth, and twelfth places...
...half of the $41,420 prize goes to Dr. Joshua Lederberg, 33, of the University of Wisconsin and the other half to Drs. E.L. Tatum, 49, of New York's Rockefeller Institute, and George Wells Beadle, 55, of the California Institute of Technology...