Word: midyears
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...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...
...human has as yet tried the new seat, but Lockheed is so encouraged by fullscale, 1,000-m.p.h. trials at the Air Force's research track on Hurricane Mesa, Utah that the device will go into production before its test cycle is complete, probably by midyear. Lockheed's flying seat has many advantages over the capsule cockpit: it is light, simple, cheap and can fit many aircraft now in service...
...midyear, SAC will take delivery on its first Boeing KC-135 jet tankers, which, had they been in operation last week, would have cut about six hours off the round-the-world mission. *Since the flyers traveled at about half the speed of the earth (1,000 m.p.h. at the equator), the time span between sunrises was compressed to 16-hr. "sun days," half light, half dark. They caught their first sunset over the Great Lakes, a few hours after their i p.m. takeoff, thereafter saw the sun rise and set at eight-hour intervals, i.e., sunrise over the Atlantic...
...Committee on Educational Policy voted last month in favor of the exam-typing experiment and indicated that it could go into effect for a few days during the midyear exam period...