Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British Columbia has plenty to celebrate-and much more to look for ward to. Nearly half again as big as Texas, it is bursting with vitality, rippling with Bunyanesque muscles (see color pages). It is the forest province in a forest nation, the greatest fish supplier in a land of fishermen, the source of as much potential hydroelectric power as ten St. Lawrence power projects. British Columbians brag: "We are the right people living in the right place at the right time...
...Army (4-0)-downgraded from the No. 1 spot because, against sub-par Virginia, it stumbled through a fumble-filled first half before straightening out and rolling...
...only 55% of undergraduates was of traditional college age, 18-21. The proportion of older students has grown fast, to about 40%. More students each year-29% of men, 10% of women at last count-are married. Four students out of ten earn more than half their college expenses, about twice the pre-World War II number...
...Ability of students admitted to college is rising sharply. Stanford reports an upswing in aptitude test scores between 1951 and 1956 "so great that the lower half of the class entering in 1951 simply would not have been admitted in 1956." But college faculties, suggests Professor Wise, "have neither fully sensed this radical change nor taken adequate steps to provide challenge and stimulation for these new students." An alarming statistic: only about half of the students in the upper 20% of ability stays on to graduate...
...respected, if not loved, by federal officialdom, which he frequently treats with the loftiness of the master ordering his vassals into line. "Admiral," he once said frostily, rising and thereby terminating an interview with Lewis Strauss, then special assistant to the President on atomic-energy matters, "you have wasted half an hour of my time...