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...will be picturing a daily scene in University Hall from the time it was built in 1815 up to the halfway mark of the century, when Commons ended and the building started evolving from a center of undergraduate life into the administrative monopoly it is today...
...behind schedule. There was a great cheer as he strode to the platform of the Astor ballroom and flung a big brown briefcase beside the rostrum. Grinning broadly, Joe plunged extemporaneously into an hour and a quarter's attack on Communism in Government, broken only momentarily at the halfway mark when he took off his coat and rolled up his shirt sleeves...
...Navy Retreats. The Utah, sunk in her old age by Japanese bombers, lay rusting on the floor of Pearl Harbor when, in 1947, the Navy decided that Mrs. Crawshaw was entitled to a partial pension. She was not satisfied with a halfway victory, and continued to fight. In 1948, she forced the Navy to list Crawshaw's death as an accident...
...Halfway around the world, blonde, blue-eyed Traude Eisenkolb, 19, also found the toiler's glory. She was a stenographer at the Maxhütte Steel Works in Saalfeld, a small industrial town in Germany's Eastern zone, when the Communists launched a drive to bring more young people into the steel industry. What was needed to put the drive across was a little sex appeal. The pressagents searched high & low for the kind of face that would look appealing in the glow of a blast furnace, picked Traude. Forthwith she became a "model" furnace worker, was billed...
...Steel mills are already halfway to their goal of producing an additional 18 million tons a year (greater than Britain's entire annual output) on top of the 100 million tons they were turning out before Korea...