Word: halfway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arrival of his two hundred pound father from Kentucky swung the scales for Kenneth, and all those dear old forces of love, live business, and justice which we so like to see triumph (or 'don't we?) came out ahead. We tried to too, but we got hopelessly blocked halfway up the aisle...
...attempt to meet the inflamed miners halfway results disagreeably in mob violence, several variously assorted murders, a broken head for John, explosions, collapse in the value of the property. An outsider, unhampered by humanitarian scruples, buys a controlling interest in the mines for a fraction of their value...
William Kissam Vanderbilt, financier: "It was announced that I would embark on my palatial yacht, the Ara, with a party of friends, to undertake a cruise halfway round the world to study the ocean's bottom and the currents, to collect marine specimens for my museum on Long Island. It was recalled that the last yachtsman to undertake a serious oceanographic research was the late Prince Albert of Monaco, whose extensive labors were rewarded with the Agassiz gold medal of the National Academy of Science...
...doing my best to make Parliament work. It is, perhaps, curious that I should say this, but I wish to meet the Opposition halfway. More than that I cannot...
...expedition is a wonderful study in Geography. The Aleutian Islands are not at the end of the world. They are halfway on the shortest route from North America to Asia, perhaps the site of future air ports of intercontinental air lines...