Word: midyear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THRIFTY AMERICANS are putting more into long-term savings than ever before. Institute of Life Insurance says that savings accounts, insurance policies and U.S. savings-bond holdings of average American household hit $5,100 at midyear v. $5,000 in 1956 and $4,000 in 1950. In 1957's first half, U.S. total swelled by nearly $9 billion to total of $253 billion...
...examples of the programs the Union Committee can sponsor, von Stade cited a series of three talks by members of the University staff two years ago under the auspices of the Union Committee. Last year, the group also sponsored a dance after midyear examinations...
STEEL PRICES will go up again at midyear, when steelworkers get their annual raise under three-year contract. Estimates are for boost of $5 to $6 a ton; increase will be less if production stays low (currently 92% of capacity), more if auto-buying picks up sharply later in spring...
...Franklin Roosevelt's second term started at 65%, was down by midyear to 60%; Harry Truman's slipped from 69% in January 1949, to 57% in March...
...person unfamiliar with course organization at Harvard, the two-week period before midyear, and the three week interim before final, exams might look suspiciously like time set aside for cramming. In fact, he might think unprincipled professors used these periods to gather up the odds and ends, or the dregs, of their courses, enabling them to stuff their students a little fuller and to cross off the remaining titles on their syllabi. Taking notice of the remarkable number of extracurricular activities at Harvard, and taking human nature into account, he probably would doubt that periods placed at such propitious times...