Word: half-year
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Kotaro Wakao, young, rich, potent Japanese businessman sported a little with Manhattan newspapermen last week. Overworked, he was in the U. S. as part of a half-year furlough from affairs.* Energetic he took his relaxation by studying U. S. factories that he had not seen a decade ago. At that time he studied at Columbia University. Courteous, he visited and thanked bankers who this spring sold $70,000,000 bonds of the Tokyo Electric Light Co. (TIME, June 18). Kotaro Wakao's father, Shohachi Wakao, is Tokyo Electric's president. Discerning international bankers...
Their term of service will fall in the second half-year, during which time Professor Mercier and Professor Stetson will lecture at a number of educational institutions...
...definite availability of the faculty the Cornell plan anticipates what has been the only flaw in the Reading Period. At Harvard the tutors, who might be expected to give significance in terms of divisionals and fields of concentration to the final harvesting of a half-year's study, cannot be consulted, while the section man, often as like to the tutor as the captain to the crew of the captain's gig, keeps precarious office hours...
Lowell Schmaltz was supposed to have known Calvin Coolidge only during the half-year that he (Mr. Schmaltz) was a freshman classmate of Mr. Coolidge's at Amherst. Edward F. Horrigan knew Calvin Coolidge when he (Mr. Coolidge) was Governor of Massachusetts. Mr. Horrigan was one of Governor Coolidge's aides...
...process of moving from the old Museum to the new building was an affair of prime importance, but was so conducted that regular work was not interrupted to any considerable extent. Moving was commenced on a small scale in September, 1926, and by the beginning of the second half-year, one course began to hold 'its meetings in the new building. In April the old building was closed to the public except for occasional lectures. The transferring of the collections into the new Museum was accomplished very effectively by a group of men specially chosen for the task...