Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hell, half the world wants to be like Thoreau at Walden," Painter Franz Kline once remarked, "worrying about the noise of the traffic on the way to Boston. The other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half." He painted the noise, in hurtling compositions that were apt to bear the names of locomotives or place-names of his native Pennsylvania coal country. Together with his fellow abstract expressionists, he split the Manhattan art world of the early 1950s into two camps. The conservatives damned them because their work not only obliterated...
...growing good of the world," George Eliot wrote in closing Middlemarch, her finest novel, "is partly dependent upon unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." It was not only the motto for her books but, as Haight convincingly shows, an accurate summary of her own hidden life...
Outside right Gerry Montero aggravated a groin injury and will play sparingly. Right halfback John Gordon and his substitute Bezo Cutler both have sprained ankles. Together they may be able to operate effectively for perhaps half of the game...
Harvard's junior varsity soccer squad relied on a first half scoring explosion to sweep past a weak Lowell Tech team 7-0 yesterday...
Sophomore right wing John Runyon sparked the team to a 5-0 halftime lead with a goal and four assists. Runyon repeatedly swept around Tech's left half to set up the scores across the middle...