Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover. Behind him trotted Secretaries Wilbur and Hyde, Solicitor-General Hughes, Farm Board Chairman Legge, six others. When they came to their level, shrub-guarded playground behind the White House, they briskly began passing their 8-lb. medicine ball back and forth. They kept it up for a half-hour, then walked back to the White House to have their morning coffee indoors instead of out for the first time this year. Thus came Winter to Washington...
...totally blind people in China should pass in review in single file before the President of China at the rate of 2,000 per hour without stopping day or night, the President would go without sleep for one whole month. There are probably not less than one-half million of people in China today who are blind in both eyes; probably five million more who are blind in one eye, and at least 15 million who are nearly blind, many of whom will be totally blind within a few years...
...Bark, an aged black gelding, won the international individual championship for military jumpers. Tan Bark committed six and one-half faults but won because Lieut. Francesco Formigli and his Italian Army mount got messed up on a stone wall and the triple bars...
...moleskins and a fur-collared coat, Yale's Albie Booth, being saved for Harvard, sat on the bench where everyone could see him. On the field Donald McLennan, second substitute for Booth, after a scoreless first half, cut through tackle and around end to jam through one touchdown and lead the way for another. Eddie Wittmer and ten other hard-working Princetonians found they were up against a better team. Yale 13, Princeton...
DISRAELI?George Arliss builds an empire out of half a dozen mannerisms...