Word: midstreamers
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...midstream, during the Revolutionary War days, the University admonished students against throwing cannon-balls from the windows of Hollis Hall at passing British soldiers...
...Anne Gary Pannell, president of Sweet Briar College, warned last week that wartime marriages are on the increase. "We see the abandonment of promising college careers in midstream whenever the possibility of marriage is presented," she said...
...Legislature. The Executive-President, Cabinet and the rest-are not responsible to Congress and so do not have control of Congress . . . [Our elections] are not . . . declarations by the electorate on important issues before them, but merely variations on old copybook maxims such as "Don't change horses in midstream" or "People do not generally vote against prosperity...
Here it is the day after election and I've been marked absent, Vag mused. I never got a chance to Discuss the Merits of the Democratic/Republican Administration, pick one, five minutes. I wasn't permitted to argue the Advantages of Changing Horses in Midstream, with Special Reference to Your Reading of the Past Four Years. I wasn't able to answer, in a series of well-executed, concise, X's, the biggest poser of them all: Truman or Dewey...
...bubbles with a new enthusiasm-making abstract paintings of crawling sea life. They hardly looked like the work of the same man. Exhibited in Manhattan last week, the paintings nonetheless showed the same craftsmanship he once lavished on academic art. Kupferman had changed horses in midstream and done it with the dexterity of a circus rider. The question...