Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago N.M.A. conventions were largely social, did not get rolling before 10 a.m.. ana only 20% of the attendance represented young doctors (out of medical school ten years or less). Last week there was an S.R.O. crowd for the steroids meeting at 8 a.m., and half the registration was of ten-year (and under) doctors...
...semifailures obscured the overall record of U.S. rocketry to date. Totting up the figures, the U.S. could feel satisfied with results-though the figures were not quite so impressive as they sounded; e.g., a launch planned only to test a rocket's first stage, and which travels only half the full distance, is scored a "success" because it accomplishes all that it was expected to. The record, including satellite launches...
...miles a second to a modest one mile a second. Fast neutrons would bounce off or pass through the thorium, but at this speed neutrons are moving slowly enough to be captured by thorium 232 atoms, turning them into unstable thorium 233. When thorium 233 decays, after a brief half life of 23 minutes, it becomes protactinium 233, which in turn decays after a half life of 27 days, becomes uranium 233, a full-fledged nuclear fuel as fissionable as the better known radioactive uranium isotope...
Newspaper Publisher Charles Phelps Taft (half brother of the President) and his wife built their collection to fit the museum when it was still their own home, a gem of early Federal architecture on Cincinnati's Lytle Park. In 1927 they presented it intact to Cincinnati. The quiet spacious rooms are adorned but not crowded with Duncan Phyfe furniture, 200 Chinese porcelains, a top-rank selection of French Renaissance enamels, and more than 100 canvases, from Hieronymus Bosch to John Singer Sargent, all of extraordinary quality. In fact, Hals's Laughing Child is only one of a dozen...
...Half the ministers doubt that the value of the sacrament of Communion depends entirely upon the attitude of the participant, while less than 20% of the laymen show any uncertainty...