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...straight course, and you usually try to bomb on the length of the bridge and not crossways. But in order not to violate the air over Manchuria, Communist China, we could not fly the length of the bridge to take it out. We could not go over midstream...
...treetops for just a short glimpse of the shells. The crowd broke into spontaneous cheers as underdog Oxford, favored by toss and its choice of the largely inside (Surrey) bank, broke into the lead at the halfway mark. From then on. while Cambridge floundered in the choppy water in midstream. Oxford pulled steadily ahead, won by a handy 4½ lengths...
...least-known national monuments. It lies at the heart of the Navaho reservation, about 80 miles northwest of Gallup, N.M. on a spine-rattling dirt road. Down the winding course of the canyon runs an underground river. In summer, Navahos farm the sandy banks and dig for water in midstream. Superstitiously afraid of the cave ruins, they build their hive-shaped hogans at the feet of the sky-filling sandstone cliffs. The Navahos still paint animals, like the cows below, on the cliffs; the earliest known example of their reportorial pictures is reproduced above...
...considerably more cautious stand was taken by Budget Director-Designate Joseph Dodge, who had been an observer at the final budget-drafting process. Dodge pointed out that attempting to change the course of this budget in midstream is a problem of monstrous proportions. A great many of the proposed expenditures have already been authorized by Congress, nearly all are for programs that are roaring full speed ahead...
...Lincoln the President: Midstream, by J. G. Randall. The third volume of a rambling but reflective biography, begun in 1937, which this time focuses on 1863, the year of the Emancipation Proclamation...