Word: half
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...room in which Count Csáky stood represented only a small part of the detailed workmanship and great wealth that had been poured into Hungary's impressive Houses of Parliament. Standing on the Rudolph Quay in Pest (i.e., on the left bank of the Danube, the flat half of Budapest), this 19th-Century, Gothic-style building ranks as one of the largest legislative palaces of the world. It cost $8,000,000, covers four-and-one-half acres, has a dome 315 feet high. It was intended, when built, to show Hungary's importance, but after World...
...coincidence that a Nazi trade delegation in Bucharest demanded: 1) more Rumanian products; 2) cheaper prices; 3) increased transportation facilities. More than half the German-Rumanian trade in grain and oil used to go by sea from Constantsa to Hamburg. That route is now cut and the trade has to be rerouted up the Danube or across southeastern Europe's poor railroad system. But barges and railroad cars are scarce in Rumania, and, moreover, many are owned by France and Great Britain. When the German delegation requested the Rumanians to commandeer these, Rumania refused. The Germans departed, but scarcely...
...Polish Government "a farce." Last week the Moscow press picked up a New York Herald Tribune story saying that at Angers "one of the smallest States in the world-probably smaller than any except the State of Vatican City-is being established on an estate one mile long and half a mile wide in the Valley of the Loire." At this Pravda of Moscow jibed: "Two things particularly worry Sikorski: first the absence of a capital city; secondly, the absence of a national minority to oppress. Sikorski is hesitating whether to import the latter or ask local French authorities...
...fourth quarter, when Lincoln was leading 14-to-0, half the spectators were milling around on the field, at times crowding the players into a 60-foot square. Finally, unable to handle the crowd, officials called off the game. Lincoln, leading 14-to-7, claimed victory. Howard protested on the grounds that Lincoln, as host, should have kept the field clear. Irate coaches appealed to the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association to decide...
...even so versatile a genius as Alec Templeton can hold 6,000,000 radio listeners for a full half hour. So Alec Templeton Time employs guest stars, an orchestra under Symphonist Daniel Saiden-berg, a 16-voice chorus, and, for the last month an Old Country crowd pleaser named James Patrick Rudolph Francis O'Malley...