Word: halfway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the course of many speeches, two pronouncements of great weight were made. Mr. Secretary Kellogg's was of immediate importance. He stated the Powers, under the leadership of the U. S., were prepared to go more than halfway in restoring to China her lost sovereignty, in nursing to manhood her newborn sense of nationality...
...Bryan had told friends it was to be his greatest speech. It was his last great argument in defense of Modernism which meets halfway with Evolution...
...crab was caught. A second time, Groton made a clean, getaway, but the 1928 oarsmen were still somewhat disorganized and ropped nearly half a length behind. Rowing at 42 strokes to the minute, they quickly caught up and with a lowered stroke had forged a length ahead by the halfway mark...
...banks of the Thames were 250,000 people. Only a few could see the starting-line. Halfway down the course, the race was broadcast by a loudspeaker. "The crews are paddling to the start," said the cracked, metallic voice; "they are in position . . . the race has begun." There was an extraordinary pause. Then the gnome in the radio said that Cambridge was leading by six lengths. Amazement on the banks. Again the voice . . . "Oxford is sinking," it said...
...last words were echoed from the Senate and House wings on both sides. Possibly it was irritation from this echo that caused Senator Cole Blease, newly elected from South Carolina, to walk down the stairs from the stand in his black sombrero and disappear before the President had finished. Halfway through, the President donned his glasses, but there were no other interruptions, save for applause, until the conclusion...