Word: mid-point
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...Babbitt. Babbitt's encyclopdic crudition provoked his students to make bets before lectures as to how many different authors he would refer to in the course of an hour, a custom which would not be out of place in Levin's courses. But Levin is still only at the mid-point of his career. Influenced by some of the greatest teachers in the Harvard tradition, a strong influence himself on some of the brightest students exposed to that tradition, he has only begun to make his contribution. It is as impressive a beginning, though as many men achieve...
Princeton, employing a tight man-to-man defense, got off to a strong start, and led by 16 points at the mid-point of the first half. The varsity closed the gap to 34-26 at the half, and trailed 51-48 when the Tigers began their final spurt. A Princeton freeze in the final minutes killed any hopes of a Crimson...
Unfinished as it is, Lucien Leuwen is a true coin of Stendhal's genius; only the edges want milling. It ranks almost with The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma, the great novels which Stendhal wrote before & after it; and it marks the mid-point in his development from a powerful psychologist who couldn't help laughing at the people he created, to a deadly satirist who couldn't stop creating the people he laughed...
When the boats approached the mid-point of the course the Crimson shell was leading by one and a half lengths and stroke Louis McCagg took the beat down to between 29 and 30. Nevertheless his boat continued to pull away from Cornell which was stroking...
Princeton, suffering from a boating shakeup, led the other three entries for the first quarter mile. The Crimson took over the lead at the half mile mark and held it to a little beyond the mid-point of the race. Then M.I.T. began to move up and the bow to bow racing began...