Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fall of 1954, when Buttrick's appointment was announced, the post of University preacher had been vacant for one and a half years. Despite speculation during the previous spring that the new head of memorial Church would have no teaching duties, Buttrick also became an active professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...lingering doubt as to why the late Philanthropist Vincent Astor cut his half brother, sometime Playboy John Jacob Astor, out of his will was cleared up by Vincent's widow, Brooke Russell Astor. Testifying in an examination preceding the trial in which J. J. will strive to get a slice of Vincent's estimated $120 million fortune, Brooke Astor told of Vincent's deep feeling for J. J.: "Nothing but contempt." Captain Astor, a Navy officer in both World Wars, regarded J. J., said Brooke Astor, daughter of a Marine Corps general, as "the most useless...
...world needs more people-including girls-who think for themselves." All down the line, urged Sister Margaret, education for U.S. women should be stiffened. More women should go on to graduate school, be fitted for "a better contribution to American life." Said she of classical-bent Trinity, which sends half its girls to graduate school: "We're not in the business of training committee women or bridge players...
...find a potential customer, where to make a big new loan. His door is never closed to those who want to see him. In a recent week he met with the Belgian ambassador and the finance minister of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, played host to several distinguished British bankers, received half a dozen officers of corresponding banks. One customer summed him up: "Quick, pleasant, brilliant...
Alexander's "special kind of bank" has attracted the biggest lights of the financial firmament. More than half of the top 500 U.S. corporations-including such giants as General Electric, General Motors and Standard Oil (New Jersey)-bank with Morgan Guaranty. The U.S. Government leans on Morgan Guaranty as one of the principal dealers in government securities. The bank annually sends out more than 9,200,000 dividend checks worth $1 billion for corporations, takes care of investing $6.5 billion in trust funds. Morgan Guaranty runs pension funds for such big corporations as Johns-Manville, Kennecott Copper, Philip Morris...