Word: halfway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orleans, Ferdinand, 1,000-lb. Jersey bull, pushed halfway through a fence hole, devoured a 100-lb. sack of cornmeal, got stuck. To Ferdinand's rump,' Owner William Lashley, lacking a bee, applied the live terminals of an electric battery, shocked Ferdinand free...
...show last April 30. Today the books of the Fair give an instructive financial history of the biggest world's fair ever. Set up like most world's fairs as a supposedly self-supporting promotion enterprise, like most, it is far from breaking even. Beyond the halfway mark (August 9), the Fair's figures revealed the reason for Mayor LaGuardia's Chicago plea. They showed in round numbers...
...family-three sisters, three brothers, two brothers-in-law-represents "one of the most striking agglutinations of personal power in the world." Soong Meiling, Mme Chiang Kaishek, the "most brilliant of the three sisters," is the "second most powerful personage in China," i.e., after her husband. Warily Author Gunther halfway predicts a long stalemate in the war, the Japanese trying merely to hold what they have. "But they must face the united and regenerated force of the Chinese nation," he adds. "They are fighting a people that have never before been permanently beaten...
Father Robert Ignatius Gannon, 46, is halfway through his six-year term as head of Fordham, biggest of the nation's Catholic universities. Like its football teams, Fordham is rough, tough, commercial. President Gannon, a onetime English and philosophy teacher, believes there is nothing wrong with Fordham football or fascism in Italy, plenty wrong with Progressive Education...
...watch, the fog seemed to thicken as dawn came. Suddenly, 20 feet dead ahead, a great silhouette showed. Fred Bourque shouted a warning to Billy Oilman at the wheel, ran aft. In less time than it takes to gut a cod the Isabelle Parker had piled halfway through the Gloucesterman Edith C. Rose, southbound with her hold stuffed with catch from Brown's Bank. The watch below came tumbling up in undershirts. They saw that it was over for both ships...