Word: halfway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trail of the Qua Quan Quot was peculiar, not to say gruesome. I was digging on the edge of the eliff overlooking the Urubamba Canyon when my pick struck on a rock that rang hollow. By careful investigation, I finally discovered the entrance to a cave, halfway down the cliff, and almost inaccessible from above. My adventures in entering the cave might fill a volume. The mouth had been completely stopped up, so as to be airtight; and when I succeeded in forcing an entrance; a tremendous puff of noxious gas burst out, asphyxiating me instantly. When I recovered...
...production will persevere. Unless this outside education of the audience can be accomplished, it may be necessary to apply St. John Ervine's heroic remedy a moratorium of the drama a closing of all theatres until the audience is ready to make the spiritual effort to meet the playwright halfway...
England is finding trouble with her possessions a sort of hydra; no sooner does she cut off one head of rebellion than another rises, halfway across the world. The worst difficulty she has to cope with at present seems to be centered in India, where the Commander-in-Chief has admitted that the "garrison is none too large" and that England's "ability to keep order may be tested at any time...
...backing is given to hockey, to baseball, to crew--but "what is new is not valuable". Of course, it is only right to expect that the team should make a definite bid for our interest--undoubtedly it will; but while it is getting started, we might well meet it halfway. The schedule includes the first Harvard-Yale basket-ball game in nearly fifteen years--another chance to beat the Elis. The season as a whole will be much harder than last year so, as the cheer leaders say, "Make this a good...
...perfected, will infallibly sink a cruiser at sea if exploded within a hundred feet of it. The Germans-General Maitrot seems to have certain information of this-are no more idle, the Krupp engineers have completed a 309 mm. quick-firing, soundless gun. They are working on a model halfway between the French 75 mm., and the German 77 mm. field gun, with a range of ten kilometres, and are trying to make it soundless as well. With soundless guns and sightless statesmen the next war will be even more glorious than the last. -New Republic...