Word: midway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oddest series of recitals for the U. S. next season will be that of Lionel Tertis. Mr. Tertis is an English musician of some note. His instrument is the viola. Few lay citizens know just what the viola is. It is a member of the viol family, lying midway between the violin and the violoncello. In appearance it is nothing more than a large violin, played in the customary position for the violin. Its tone is very distinctive, deeper, mellower and moodier than that of the violin. Its lack lies in variety. It does not have the alternate darkness...
...pick up, and passed first White and then Harris, and in the last lap White also passed Harris and came in second. In the mile, Campbell Newhall '24 led for the first half of the race, with D. Coughlin on his heels all the way. At about the midway point Coughlin took the lead, but stayed just ahead of Newhall until the last lap, when he lengthened out his stride and finished several yards ahead...
...often talk as if the so-called White Russians were an integral part of the Russian nation, regarding it a crime for Poland to lay any claim to any part of this population. In fact, however, the White Russians are a people who religiously, linguistically, historically, and geographically, stand midway between the Poles and the Russians, having quite as many ties with their western neighbors as with their eastern ones. They are a very ignorant people with almost no consciousness of nationality at all. When you ask one of them to what nation he belongs, he is likely to answer...