Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Murray injected tissue from human cancers into his horses. When he figured that they had had time to make antibodies, he bled them, extracted the serum from the blood and injected it into human patients in gradually increasing doses over 21 days, until they had received a total of half a pint...
Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif, is still too young to have much tradition. What it has, as it prepares to start its second school year this month, is 118 students (7 girls), 17 faculty members plus a half-completed campus, built with funds whose core is a gift of more than $2,000,000 from the widow and family of Harvey Seeley Mudd, a California mining engineer who died three years...
...although "they never seem to worry about religious ceremonies shocking the layman." Back came Osservatore with a blast at a sequence in which the Devil warms up Eve for the apple scene by bouncing her off in a frenetic rock 'n' roll. "This caricature of the female half of mankind would be enough to justify our protests. Nowhere does the Bible say that the female human was under devilish influence or in connivance with the Devil...
SOVIET STEEL PRODUCTION spurted 8% to 30 million tons in first half of 1957, world's biggest gain by far, says U.S. Commerce Department. Meantime, other nations held fairly steady, except U.S., which plunged 37% to 38 million...
Tiny Portable. A six-transistor, one-battery portable radio that weighs half a pound and measures only 2¼ in. by 3⅛ by if in.-slightly larger than a cigarette box-was put on sale in the U.S. by Japan's Hitachi, Ltd. Price...