Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half-hour lessons will be based on the text and stick-figure drawings of English Through Pictures by Richards and Miss Gibson. However, each lesson will include two live sequences, using local actors, to aid in comprehension, and to give the students variations in American voices, accents and personalities...
...cover the year's events adequately. If an activity receives several pages of pictures, it means that a photographer happened to be present, rather than that the activity deserved extended coverage. For example, there are three photographs for The Master Builder, including one of a page and a half, and none of the Hasty Pudding Show...
...long life in a series of flashbacks showing the old composer looking back on the struggles and triumphs of his stupendous career. It is Sheean's best book since Personal History (1935), and if its prose could be rid of repetitions and the parentheses that break out half a dozen to the page, it would be the best introduction to Verdi and his music in the English language. Clearly a labor of love, it is at once a fine tribute and a history of bitter wounds and infinite distress...
From the Union lines, behind the stone wall on the crest of Cemetery Ridge, First Lieut. Frank A. Haskell looked down on the forming ranks of the Confederacy: "More than half a mile their front extends; more than a thousand yards the dull grey masses deploy, man touching man, rank pressing rank, and line supporting line. The red flags wave, their horsemen gallop up and down; the arms of eighteen thousand men, barrel and bayonet, gleam in the sun, a sloping forest of flashing steel. Right on they move, as with one soul, in perfect order, without impediment of ditch...
Although Yale was in the lead most of the way, the Crimson shell was never far behind. The varsity jumped ahead at the start but the Elis closed the gap in the first quarter of a mile and slowly ground out a lead. With one half mile to go they were ahead a half a length...