Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point, Greenwich Village Artist Jim Snodgrass, 34, and Medical Research Consultant Hank Bloomgarden, 28, both answered correctly a ten-point question on European royalty, then went for the tough eleven-pointer: Name the five groups of bones in the human spinal column (see diagram). A onetime pre-med student, Snodgrass began with a noun, "sacrum," was ruled out by M.C. Jack Barry, whose answer card listed the adjective "sacral." Then Bloomgarden ticked off "sacral," "cervical," "thoracic," "lumbar" and "coccyx," was abruptly ruled correct and the winner of the $73,500 at stake...
Natural "background" radiation from cosmic rays and radioactive materials in the earth does some damage to the human body. In the pre-atomic past the human species kept ahead of this damage, but many scientists are worried about new ' sources of radiation, such as medical and dental X rays, "hot labs" and nuclear reactors. They fear that a point may come when the human species will lose its struggle with radiation and begin to deteriorate...
...soil bank was a compromise from the start. After campaigning for years to get rid of costly, futile, surplus-accumulating price supports, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson was forced in pre-election 1956 to settle for much less flexibility in price-support levels than he wanted. Reluctantly he and the Administration adopted the soil bank, a three-year program of paying farmers to reduce production, with the hope that after 1959 surpluses would be gone, and farmers could get back to a free market. In its favor were plausible arguments about conserving the soil, preventing erosion, etc. But even before...
...Husband also noted a relation between fields of study and present income. Business and Economics majors had the highest median income, while Social Sciences students came next. Scientists, mostly pre-medical students, followed in third place, while "Cultural" majors earned less than the class median...
...official stamp on the greatest British diplomatic reverse since Munich. "Her Majesty's Government," announced the Prime Minister, "can no longer advise British shipowners to refrain from using the Suez Canal." Payment of canal dues, he went on, would be made in sterling-though Egypt's pre-Suez balance of $300 million, which was blocked by the Eden government, would remain frozen. Curtly, Macmillan said: "A much longer view will decide the rights and wrongs. This is not by any means the end of the story...