Word: halfway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...midwinter day in 1900, three men entered the gate in front of Kentucky's capitol at Frankfort and started walking toward the edifice. Halfway through the grounds stands a fountain, the overflow of which had only partly frozen on the path. As the three men turned aside to avoid the sludge, five rifle shots were fired with terrible deliberation and enormous echoes from a lower window of the capitol. One of the men near the fountain collapsed, mortally wounded...
Champions. Astute M. André Geraud, famed as Pertinax, leading Parisian journalist-oracle, has said of the present election: "Socialism would appear to be the principal issue . . . or rather, the battle will be fought between the uncompromising opponents of socialism and the people who halfway disapprove...
...illusion. It is case of a large, undigested bite on the part of the playwright, wrangled through by the actors to a conclusion which is powerful in spite of itself. Briefly the story concerns an unrequited love, and it must be said in due praise, that there is nothing halfway in the lack of reciprocation,--neither is the plot in this particular point improbable...
...University to each other. The semi-formal, social character of such meetings in something not to be attained even in the most intimate classes; the only pity is that no larger number of students take advantage of them. The Union and the Faculty are coming more than halfway; only where the students are unwilling to make a little effort does the plan fall through...
...very field where the Columbia lay fueled and ready to start, touching ground again 33 hours and 29 minutes later in mad Paris. Chamberlin had to be content to finish second in the race across the Atlantic. Half in admiration, he reports Mr. Levine in love with flying. Halfway across the Atlantic Enthusiast Levine forced the Columbia into a 17,000-foot drop from which she was extracted with difficulty. Over Germany, Levine ordered the plane flown until the last drop of gas was gone, forcing an accident when a landing had to be made on rough ground. After each...