Word: midway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organization entitled the American-British Improvement Corporation, with a coat of arms showing eagle and lion rampant beside the sovereign seal of Florida, proclaimed "a Biarritz in the building . . . small, smart, exquisite . . . whose founders read like a page from the social register." A tract of 3,600 acres midway between Palm Beach and Miami was in hand. There was ocean frontage with the Gulf Stream only 3 miles offshore. There were the Dixie Highway, the East Coast Canal, the East Coast Railway, and hard beside, Fort Lauderdale with a fine natural harbor. Architecture was to be of the Mediterranean-Caribbean...
...Here we are at the trial to see whether the Transportation act will work. We are to see whether this is a consistent piece of legislation intended to strike midway between doing nothing and Government ownership. It is of almost tragic importance in that it is the first attempt to try out a national policy, and the suggestion of fraud is most unfortunate. It will have no effect here, but it goes spawning through the records and hatches new troubles and difficulties in out of the way places...
King Edward one cup-day at Ascot when Ribblesdale as master of the Royal Buckhounds rode up the midway at the head of the King's gentlemen...
...Midway between the two portraits glimmers a mirror over whose forgetful surface have played the intervening years, as reflected in Ann's face and figure?Peter Smith's pioneering in steel; the "partnership" they were to have had in this as man and wife; his reticence and absorption in the business; their first quarrels, his prosperity, their children; the great fire and his phoenix-like rise therefrom...
...past week's news from China revealed an ugly situation at Shanghai, large foreign settlement midway between Peking in the north and Canton in the south; at Canton, capital of the southerly Province of Kwangtung; at Peking, national capital...