Word: halfway
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When the Endowment Fund books closed throughout the country last night, not quite 49 per cent. of the entire sum had been pledged, but today's subscriptions should easily carry it over the halfway mark. Yesterday the total was raised to $7,437,961, of which the Boston canvassers had secured $3,082,240; New York, $2,658,701, and the other committees...
...order to meet the needs of this University the auditorium ought to have a larger foyer, or outer halfway, than that provided in the Hill Memorial. In this might be placed a tablet engraved with the names of the men who fell in the war, and a short account of the military history of each...
...clutches of an unscrupulous Englishman who makes love indiscriminately to her and her companion, Abbey Sexton. John is a business man but a human one. He sees his opportunity, grasps it, and of course the whole thing turns out all right in the end. The Englishman is "halfway to Canada" by the time John wins his old sweetheart back again...
...second Freshman boat and the Junior class crew raced over the regular Henley distance yesterday afternoon, from the Union Boat Club to the Cottage. Farm Bridge, the Freshman crew winning by a length. The 1918 boat jumped into the lead at the start, and at the halfway mark was a length and a half ahead of the Junior. In the final spurt the Junior boat gained about half a length, finishing a length behind...