Word: midway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other hand, it is evident that those who take the midway stand have an even more convincing proof of their contention that colleges and schools present individual problems...
...week's end Western Air Express Pilot George K. Rice saw, high up in the forests on Mt. Taylor, 11,289-ft. extinct volcano on the Continental Divide, midway between Albuquerque and Gallup, what seemed small patches of snow. He flew low. In the sunlight, midst trees, gleamed pieces of duralumin. In Pilot Rice's words: "Then we saw the left wing of the plane where it had been cut off by striking a tree. The wing was turned upside down and we could read the [license] numbers 9649. The balance of the plane we saw about...
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...Midway in time between these two extremes, the ear has brought to Harvard a large collection of eighteenth century English fiction Some of these books have been "collector's items," additions to the shelves devoted to the outstanding literary lights, but by far the more important portion comprises long forgotten novels by equally un known authors, who were none the less the writers who in their own day supplied the reading matter for the larger part of the book buying public. The eighteenth century is the period of English literature where Harvard's position is challenged most dangerously by Yale...
During the June week when the U. S. public is most college-conscious, Cornell stands unique in other respects besides kudos. On its hill at the tip of the biggest of western New York's Finger Lakes, it stands midway geographically, culturally, financially, between the allegedly "effete" private institutions of the East and the allegedly "crude"' State-supported institutions of the Midwest and West. Its students come from both sides of the Alleghenies. It is composed of colleges supported privately and by the State. It is a co-educational "man's college." It began with the soil and evolved...