Word: midway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pacific coast of South America, midway between Chile and Peru and separating Bolivia from the ocean, lies the ill-omened nitrate-pregnant area of Tacna-Arica...
From this heated but futile de bate, many M. P.'s turned with relief to an ice-calm* exposition of the strikers' position under British law, set forth dispassionately by Sir John Simon, a renowned legal authority, who, as one of the few remaining Liberals, stands politically midway between the contending forces. He said...
Liberia a negro republic about midway down the west coast of Africa presents a large area of almost unexplored territory...
...last of her baker's dozen of songs, Meller chose "Flor del Mal" (Flower of Sin). It tells, with the utter simplicity of all Meller's repertoire, the hopeless, disdainful story of a street girl. Her clothes were shoddy, ill-fitting; her hair slovenly, black about her forehead. Midway in the singing Meller moved out on a little platform almost over the heads of the first row, and lighted a cigaret. She smoked it singing and walked over to lean, dejected, against the stage wall. The song ended and she disappeared...
Miscellaneous. Ocean-breaking rocks over which the national anthem is annually sung, include Wake Island (one square mile) directly en route from Hawaii to Hongkong, and the Midway Islands, many leagues north of Hawaii...