Word: halfway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outstanding brilliance that made Friedrich Ebert so successful as first President of the German Republic. Tact, willingness to go halfway in bridging crises, and, withal a careful tenacity of principle will make his loss severely felt. Few people expected so great a success in guiding a new government built on shattered foundations. He has survived many a more brilliant leader of post-war Germany...
...previous instances, is nothing in this case, for Dean Pound is thoroughly in accord with the temper of the administration. His work has received strong support. He has deserved well, and, for once, has not been slighted. But much remains to be done; the Law School is not halfway in its career, and it would be a serious misfortune for the driver to let drop the reins. While the presidency of a university is not a chair to be spurned lightly, the work which the dean has so effectively carried on is not completed, and the University deeply hopes that...
...pitiable sight and is beyond the power of the human mind to conceive or the tongue to characterize that a man should be worthy of a seat in this body and should, after several days' deliberation, take the halfway course of volunteering a half-hearted apology for an offense which he has neither the courage nor the intelligence to justify or withdraw...
...unsatisfactory conditions is the University observatory in Arequipa, Peru, it was decided to establish a branch station at San Jose, halfway between Arequipa and the Port of Mollendo of several months...
...receiving stations began picking up intelligible wireless messages from the ZR3 soon after she passed "the top of the hill," as mariners call the halfway line between the two Continents. The first message ran: "Alles wohl an bord schiff" (All well on board ship...