Word: mid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tenants move. The great irony of Columbia's agony is that it all could have been avoided if the university trustees had only demonstrated a little bit more foresight back in the 1890s. The Morningside Heights area was then mainly countryside and, in moving Columbia from its old mid-Manhattan campus, they could have bought all the acreage they needed at giveaway prices...
That's the only break Harvard got. B.U., dragged down to fifth by a rash of mid-winter upsets, is, by any subjective analysis, the second best team in the East...
...fatalities leveled off at some 40,000 per year. Possibly this was due in part to improvements in the quality and availability of medical treatment of trauma in the aftermath of research developments associated with World War II. The number of automobile injuries, however, continued to rise steadily. By mid-century, somewhere between one-quarter and, in some estimates, as many as one-half of the automobiles manufactured were destined to be involved eventually in a personal injury accident; and something very like that proportion obtained for drivers as well. Automobile-induced trauma achieved an endemic quality, very much...
...Prime movers behind such reductions include both U.S. transatlantic carriers, Trans World Airlines and Pan American World Airways. Though details still have to be worked out by the International Air Transport Association and approved by foreign airlines and governments, the lower fares could be implemented as early as mid-April...
LAST Thursday, in that quiet part of the mid-afternoon that bartenders call the "Angelus" or the "Holy Hour," there were only a few in McNulty & Grogan's. Grogan was standing at the far end of the bar nursing his cup of Darjeeling tea. "My God," he said, "those Chinese. They got one word for two words...