Word: halfway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cannot be a halfway citizen under that flag. . . . We have a great deal to give when we confer citizenship upon an alien. It is like admitting a new stockholder, and he or she should be willing to do what the other stockholders have obligated themselves to do. We must forget our various views on pacifism when war comes...
...accepts the challenge and forthwith begins another battle of the century in which every comedy gag in the versitile pair's bag of tricks is uncovered. In the end, Luke wins, of course, when the two of them roll down a declivity and Cannon-Ball meets a stump halfway down with Luke...
...have no enemies. . . . We really want peace. . . . Hard work and not too much talk is the program of Turkey as she arrives at what may be called the halfway point of our present development...
While crowds were rioting in Vienna and burning down the Palace of Justice last fortnight, a tall, stooped, cadaverous U. S. traveler with an expression halfway between a hunter and a man hunted, was stationed in Germany. It was Novelist Sinclair Lewis, now slipping off to dine with Berlin babbitts, now stalking away from insistent newspaper correspondents (TIME, July...
Said U. S. Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota: "We have stood around long enough meeting the situation with halfway measures...