Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greatest danger is from the strontium isotope with atomic weight 90, which has a long half-life, but the metal's other radioisotopes could also be harmful...
...bankruptcy because its two surviving owners. Chaplin and Pickford. could not agree on how to run it. Krim agreed to take over, but drove a hard bargain. He and Benjamin got control of the company for nothing. If they turned a profit within three years, they were to get half the 20,000 shares outstanding at $1 a share...
...movies for U.A. to distribute, Krim bought the distribution rights for 200 films from Robert R. Young's Eagle Lion B-picture company, swiftly sold them to distributors for cheap, middle-of-the-week pictures. Within four months the company turned a profit, and Benjamin and Krim got half the stock. U.A. bought out the rest later, issued $17 million in stock and convertible debentures a year...
...like prison sentences. Mme. Récamier, on the other hand, was bright and lovely as a peacock and quick as a lizard at dodging through chinks. "She liked to stop everything in April," said Critic Sainte-Beuve with French delicacy-meaning that Mme. Récamier drove men half-crazy by drawing them hopelessly on with her flowery charms (even Husband Récamier was denied his wife's bed). She was 40 before she embarked on her first (and last) grand passion, the 50-year-old Vicomte de Chateaubriand. It was worth waiting...
During the mile and three-quarter heavyweight races the varsity was pushed hard by M.I.T. for the first half mile. Rowing at the very high cadence of 38 strokes per minute the Tech crew held a slight lead over the varsity, rowing at 34. But the Crimson slowly pulled ahead of the tiring Tech oarsmen and led by a length after three-quarters of a mile...