Word: mid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...March faded into April, the Council screened applicants in the plush private rooms of a restaurant near Porter Square. The mid-April deadline for appointment of a new manager came and went. Mahoney, serving as the chairman of the search, assured the public that all was going well. The Council just needed more time to finish screening all the applicants, he said...
...graduate. This time, there were Commencement exercises, shortened though they were. Saturday, January 9, 1943, was Class Day. The Senior Super was held that night. On Sunday President Conant delivered a Valedictory address, paying tribute to those about to leave for war. Before that freezing Sunday in Massachusetts' mid-winter, Harvard's Class of 1943 numbered 525 remaining members; afterwards, 149 stayed in Cambridge, some of them deferred, some in ROTC and Enlisted Reserve units that hadn't yet been called to active duty, was it worthwhile staying on? A Harvard undergraduate was rarer than a soldier...
Hendrix, who by ironic coincidence published an article in the current issue of U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings titled "The Depths of Ignorance," dealing with the hypothetical stranding of a nuclear sub on a seamount in mid-Pacific, argues that the Navy not only has insufficient bathymetric data on bottoms in all oceans but lacks adequate communication and rescue devices for subs in distress as well. Scorpion, like more than 70 of her sisters in the U.S. nuclear-sub fleet, carried only two buoys mounted on cables fore and aft to mark her position in the event of disaster, plus...
...being "expedited." Under the new measure, New Yorkers will continue to pay the current tax-1 ½ to 5 a share, depending on share prices-but out-ot-state stock sellers can look forward to a 50% cut in the tax over a five-year period beginning in mid-1969. The new law also scraps a rising tax rate on big sales in favor of a flat $350 tax on those of 7,000 shares or more...
Peace was hardly concluded with the city when another round opened in the exchange's bout with Washington over brokerage commissions. The Securities and Exchange Commission issued strong "recommendation" that the Big Board modify its commission structure to provide "volume discounts" for large transactions by mid-September. Currently, the broker's fee in a 1,000-share transaction is ten times that of a 100-share deal, even though the cost of executing the orders is the same...