Word: halfway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Germans were greeting His Royal Highness with broken-English shouts of "Hel-low Teddy," the Duke replying by giving the Nazi salute in the famed languid, halfway fashion of Adolf Hitler. Bug-eyed German moppets could be heard shouting to each other all week "Da geht der Konig von England." ("There goes the King of England...
...dangerous trail led him to death's door and over the Mexican border, to rescue his enemy; when at last it doubled home, Brandon came halfway to meet him, was willing to go further than that to keep her "blue-bellied Yank" for good...
...first twelve minutes of the race, neither gained. Then the breeze began to freshen, Ranger picked up speed, and both sailed off on a long port tack. Sopwith smartly changed Endeavour's head-sails but when he began to catch up, Vanderbilt changed Rangers. About halfway to the buoy, when both boats went about for the second time. Ranger was half a mile ahead...
...housed in a scrubby Wartime structure on Constitution Avenue, a fact which the President said aroused his "deepest sympathy." The commission's new quarters, to be ready early next year, will be part of the vast new triangular pile of Government buildings on Pennsylvania and Constitution Avenues, halfway between the White House and the Capitol...
...running order, the four planes took off together for the return to Rudolf Island 560 miles away. At the Pole for a year, they left four scientists and a dog. Since the gasoline supply was short, one of the planes sacrificed half its tankage for the others, came down halfway to wait until more fuel could be flown north. The rest reached Rudolf Island on schedule...