Word: halfway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...less serious student his first real acquaintance with scholarship and a taste for study that he does not get when under the forcing system of daily required work. At Harvard they do not yet know how this will result. The Harvard Bulletin is satisfied, however, that thus far--halfway through the experiment--there are no sins of languor about the Yard, of sudden golden harvests for the tutoring schools, or increase in outside activities or absences. It thinks that everybody is "harder at work than when classes are in operation," that the Library is more used, and that the experiment...
...Robert Livingston Clarkson looks rather like the young men who play football in college, sell bonds, put on weight as soon as they leave, and who appear at the halfway post, vigorous, talkative, ingratiating, and purring (some hours after the market has closed), with pleasure over ice & soda. It is an outward resemblance only, because Robert Clarkson possesses the importance which these popinjays pretend. He did not go to college at all but left a good school for his first inconspicuous position. When the U. S. entered the late War, he was already a partner in a newly organized brokerage...
...collusion." Then Representative Fish took occasion to address Lawyer Hogan as follows on the Fall-Sinclair-Doheny business in general: " . . . the country is aflame with righteous indignation at the nasty, sordid revelations both as regards the oil leases and the jury-tampering, and will not be satisfied with halfway measures. The public demands that all involved in either the oil scandal, now four years old, and the jury-shadowing, be sentenced to jail, and that no guilty man be permitted to escape...
...Avenue, not on Park, nor on Otto H. Kahn's 57th St. site, but on Broadway in the shabby brick building that has housed it these 44 years, the Metropolitan Opera Company began last week a new season. The scene was familiar: the line from the box office curling halfway round the block; taxis snarling at one another, limousines haughtily shouldering their way through; crowded lobbies and scalpers asking $50 apiece for seats from last-minute bidders; Thomas J. Bull, silk-hatted, correct, taking tickets at the door he has tended for 37 years; General Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza, hands...
Suddenly a great boom disturbed the comparative quiet?the sound of artillery fire. Boom! Coffee cups stopped halfway to open mouths. Boom! Newspapers fell to the breakfast table. Boom! Boom! Boom! Inert bodies squirmed between the sheets. Boom! Boom! Boom! Alert businessmen and women resigned themselves to a long count?they hoped it would be a very long count. Boom! Boom! Boom! Twenty-one blank shots, in all, were fired. Ears strained for the 22nd. The pause grew longer and longer, but the 22nd boom never came...