Word: mid-term
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...twenty to forty seats, take control of the Senate by three to five seats, win several important governorships from the Republicans, including Pennsylvania and possibly New York, and will lose none of the governorships they now hold. The party in power almost always loses [House] seats in the mid-term voting. If [the Republicans] can hold their losses to, say, twenty seats, that would be considered a Republican victory, since the average loss of House seats by the party in power in the off-year elections has been thirty-eight. The Republicans had hoped to hold their thin control...
...White case seems to us to warrant but one relevant conclusion: that the GOP is trying to save the mid-term elections by screening off material issues and substituting warmed-over reds-in-government. It is all too reminiscent of the 1950 primary in North Carolina where Senator Frank Graham, having won the first primary by 53,000 votes, lost the runoff by 18,000 votes after the countryside had been flooded with handbills and whispers charging Graham with favoring "mingling of the races...
...once, pay twice" plan, which appeared quietly last year, allows students to sign only for a full term of board, with no right to withdraw before term end. In pat years, board rates were figured by the week so that those men finishing mid-term or final examinations early could sign off board, retiring to less monotonous pastures. Since no official announcement of the change came last year, it was too late for revision when the inequity was finally revealed...
...finding, said Gallup, indicated a probable mid-term increase for the party in power without precedent since the Democrats gained ten seats in the 1934 congressional elections...
Having just taken three hour examinations, I am boiling mad over the conduct of some of the men the University hires to proctor exams. I have noticed this not just this spring, but in final and mid-term exams over the last few years. Just because they are administering an academic exercise, this does not mean they have to act as lord and master over students. But many of them do. They are rude; they treat us like so many unruly school children...