Word: halfway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suzanne Eisendieck was born in Danzig of Polish parents. Her father was a lumber dealer. For two years she studied in Berlin, then moved on to Paris with exactly 300 francs in her thin purse. She got a Montparnasse garret so small that she had to lean halfway out of the window to paint at all. Already she had developed a style. She wanted to paint the mythical world of 1900 (eight years before she was born), when ladies wore feather boas and bright feathers in their hats, when gentlemen had whiskers and drank champagne. Because she was much prettier...
...with the Great Sphinx of Egypt. He might get a peep of personality out of the Great Silent One, provided he could give it a monocle and scarlet Mephistophelian lips. At the age of 13, quite by accident. Bergen had already made his voice seem to come from halfway down the block from where he stood...
...only one state are all three represented, Michigan. Michigan even goes a step farther by having a Vassar, and completes the story with the following towns (see Rand McNally World Atlas): McBrides, Romeo, Elsie, Eureka, Waltz, Chase, Halfway, Rapid City, Twining, Blissfield, Climax, Liberty, Alaska, Maybee, Union City, Paines, Kawkawlin, Paw Paw, Richville, Cadillac, Lawrence, Princeton, Champion, Battle Creek, Bad Axe, Onaway, and Farwell...
Senting on a penalty abot halfway through the first period and maintaining its advantage for the reat of the game, the Varsity soccer team outplayed Princeton 1-0 before the football game at Nassan Saturday...
Last week, halfway through its crusade the uninhibited Illini had so alarmed U. of I. President Arthur Cutts Willard that he jumped into a huddle with city officials, emerged with a warning that any student nabbed in a brothel would be expelled summarily. Said President Willard: "I don't believe conditions here are general among the University's 14,000 students. But we intend to put an end to them...