Word: halfway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Halfway through the period Austin duplicated his performance, this time with the support of the entire forward line, and the score stood two to nothing in favor of the Crimson. At this point the visitors braced and individual sallies by Van Vliet and Yates kept the crowd in a tremor. The Harvard defense proved impregnable, however, and halfway through the period Coach Winsor called off his entire first-string combination. Hamilton lost its best chance to score shortly afterwards when Yates broke loose and passed to Nicholson. The latter's shot missed fire only because of Newell's unusual alertness...
...conference is not conceived as more government in business," explained Mr. Hoover. He does not advocate Federal super-regulation of interstate movement of power, but believes the solution will be found in coordinated state regulation with the assistance of the Federal Government. But the states must meet each other halfway. Maine has a law prohibiting the transmission of electric current across its borders, passed to retain Maine's waterpower for her own benefit. The people of Maine will not act the " dog in the manger," however, if a general plan is adopted, said William E. Guerney, President...
...Bachelor Girl (La Gargonne), the feminist novel for which I was expelled from the Legion of Honor. In a ' fighting preface' to The Companion I declared that my new heroine, Annik, will arouse more wrath than my previous one, Monique, as she goes further, attaining spiritual emancipation. Monique stopped halfway and got married...
...settled in Chicago, practicing law and writing, in his spare time, for out-of-doors periodicals. The Mississippi Bubble made his first real success in the literary field?other books include The Story of the Cowboy, (praised by Theodore Roosevelt), The Man Next Door, The Girl at the Halfway House and The Covered Wagon, which, in its movie incarnation, gave him, perhaps, his widest audience...
Irene Pavloska, of the Chicago Opera: "At a Cleveland dinner I asked Americans to give as much support to opera as to baseball. When I finished Judge Landis put his arms around me, but I refused a kiss. Later-after his speech-I met him halfway, and we stood interlocked in a long and real embrace...