Word: halfway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago this week Franklin Roosevelt sent his New Deal to the country to be tested in a Congressional election. A year hence this week the President will probably be going to the country himself as a candidate for reelection. Last week, halfway between these two political events, he was rusticating amid scenes of peace at Hyde Park while local elections popped and fizzled throughout the land...
Strong nurses stripped him of his clothes, lifted him writhing and shrilling, plumped him into a tub of warm water. He gave a gasp, ceased struggling. His eyelids fell halfway down over his popped eyes. He was dead...
...pound race was a nip and tuck affair with Darcey coming from behind before the halfway mark to outdistance George E. Hall, II, 1L and win the affair...
Romance and Empire ride the rails of Japan's famed South Manchuria Railway. An economic spear stuck halfway up into Manchuria, the S. M. R. was the chugging juggernaut that carried Japanese troops to their scrappy victories. Soon Hsinking, the point of the S. M. R. spear, became the capital of puppet Emperor Henry Pu Yi (TIME, March 5, 1934). Beyond that point, S. M. R. trains have been unable to go on over a spur of the Chinese Eastern to the great Russianized city of Harbin because prudent Tsar Nicholas II had Russia's rails spaced...
Shrewdly Foilman Reynolds planted himself halfway between oldtime builders who upheld the traditional methods of constructing a house and prefabricators who insist that all homes should be produced like Fords. He believed in standardization and mass production of parts but not of the complete structure. Through Reynolds Corp., one of two new subsidiaries, Reynolds Metals will market the basic structural and mechanical equipment for "The House with the Silver Lining," but will have no stock homes to sell. Through the other subsidiary, Reynolds Fiscal Corp., it will finance houses "when local financing is not available...