Word: half
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...yesterday morning about 11 o'clock at the westerly end of the city of Chelsea in a dump near the plant of the Boston Blacking Company on Summer street. Late last night the fire, fanned by the high northwest wind, had not only burned over an area of about half a mile wide and over two miles long in Chelsea, but had also spread rapidly in East Boston. One of the worst features of the fire was the explosion of the oil tanks of the Tidewater Oil Company and the Leonard & Ellis Oil Company, which are on the Chelsea River...
...courses offered in the department of English literature for this half-year are notoriously meagre. In the eighteenth century two courses are open to the ordinary undergraduate, one dealing exclusively with the school of Pope, the other with the sentimental school. In the nineteenth century no courses whatever are at the disposal of the undergraduate, save one which treats of the English novel from its birth to the present day; this however, is "primarily for graduates." We wonder what has become of those excellent courses, English 8a and 8b, in which the romantic poets of the nineteenth century might...
...distinction in history and literature. If a man wished to specialize in the nineteenth century he would find himself at a loss where to turn for material. We would suggest that more pronounced efforts be made to enrich with additional courses a period which has been so neglected this half-year...
...reflecting telescope, the largest of its kind in the world, is now being installed in the Observatory. Its mirror, which was purchased from the estate of Dr. A. A. Common of Ealing, England, in 1904, is five inches thick, has a diameter of five feet, and weighs over half a ton. Three months of continuous work were spent in shaping the mirror from the rough disc, and 410,000 strokes of the polishing machine were needed to give it the required smoothness. The preparation of the site was begun September 28, 1904, and the remounting has since gone on slowly...
...report of the treasurer for the half-year ending February 29, 1908, was as follows: RESTAURANT ACCOUNT. Receipts. Dining room, $28,938.05 Ladies' Cafe, 1,084.10 Help's table, 5,040.00 Stock on hand, 912.16 $35,974.31 Expenses. Purchases, $26,209.42 Kitchenware, 549.52 Tableware and linen, 778.29 Board of help, 3,098.00 Service, 7,730.00 Loss, 2,390.92 $38,365.23 $38,365.23 CIGAR ACCOUNT. Receipts. Cash receipts, $2,341.05 Stock on hand, 481.87 Expenses. Purchases, $2,231.88 Gain...