Word: midway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...transit, 12-year-old Lorado who had accompanied his father to superintend the uncrating, seized the fragments and fitted them cleverly into their proper places, a feat his father had been unable to accomplish. Sculptor Taft's most famed work is probably the Fountain of Time on the Midway, Chicago...
...Manhattan. So it was indeed news last Sunday when Max Mason, 50, resigned as president of the University of Chicago, to become director of the newly-created Division of Natural Sciences of the Rockefeller Foundation of Manhattan. Chicago regretted his resignation, for his three-year administration on the Midway had been energetic, progressive...
Forty-two horses came out of the paddock gate and moved up the midway to the barrier. Some walked quietly and lightly, with the jockeys sitting up high to save their backs even in this short walk; others skittered sideways, excited by the sight of other horses, by the crowd (250,000) that showed like a dark ocean along the fences, washing up into a wave in the grandstand. It had been raining in the morning, but the rain had stopped; the sky was full of shifting clouds through which the sunlight shone in patches. Three times the horses, picked...
Quaint, but probably constructed within the last millenium, the bogus "tomb" was an enclosure whose walls marked the outline of a supposedly buried female of gigantic stature. At the head was a raised mound. Midway in the enclosure rose a small whitewashed dome, protecting from the elements a mystic black stone, El Surrah...
...Vagabond feels safe in saying, Washington's birthday comes as a very pleasant event. In fact it is in the highest degree gratifying to think that over a century and a half ago the father of his country had the remarkable foresight to be born just at this time midway between Christmas and Easter, when the spirit is wearied with much study and what...