Word: half-way
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...assume a young man comes to Oxford to "read" for honours in Modern History. Once admitted to the university, he faces two sets of examinations, one about half-way through his three-year course, the other at the end. The first set, or "History Previous" is comparatively easy, and serves to keep the student in the proper path and to hold him up to his modern language requirement. The final examinations, most of three hours, on English political history, English constitutional history, a period of general history since 285, political science, economic history, and a minute special field, such...
...forgotten to watch the fulfillment of prophecies which foretold little good for English Liberals. The loss of two-thirds of their seats in Commons, with the adoption into Baldwin's new cabinet of a former Liberal, Winston Churchill, and Liberal-Coalitionists, are symptoms of the disappearance of the half-way party. In fundamental agreement with the Tory policy which intends to preserve the status quo in politics and economics with just the necessary minimum of flaunting promises to catch the worker's vote, the Liberals had really lost all excuse for insisting upon a separate existence as soon...
There will be half-way gentlemen among that famous gallery of censors, neither affronted or approving, who will bethink them sadly of the beauty of "lost causes"--the minuet, quadrille, polka, and other dances once softened by a delicate formalism and ritualistic sobriety now in disuse. Even an early nineteenth century dance manual showed sings of a growing decadence, the passing of the classical restraint and solemnity of the dance of puritanical epochs. Couples were admonished above all things, thus implying that it was not the custom, "to wear a pleasing countenance; for dancing is certainly supposed...
...Government is either carried on for the good of the people, or for the good of the rulers. There is no half-way mark. England his impoverished the Indian people. Suppose some foreign country controlled all your resources, manipulated your tariffs, made your budgets, and levied your taxes! That is what England is doing in India. She has appropriated all movable wealth, and now uses India as a source of raw materials, and a market for manufactured goods...
...saying this, the Committee goes only half-way. If authorship of tennis articles constitutes a violation of the spirit of the rule, than writing tennis books is also a violation. If the good name of tennis demands a stricter standard, well and good. There is no doubt that a player like Miss Wills, who refused a syndicate offer from twenty-five papers, does much to keep the sport on a strictly amateur basis; but so many minor abuses are present that either all of them should be recognized as legitimate, or all ruled out as harmful. The story...