Word: mid-term
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...develop in the atmosphere of stale controversy which has surrounded him since 1936. One more thing which the G. O. P. has and the Democrats have not is a Committee of 200 to draw up a Program. Organized last autumn to appease Mr. Hoover, whose scheme of a mid-term convention was declined, the Committee's sole act to date has been to elect University of Wisconsin's onetime President Glenn Frank chairman. Whether the Committee should be listed as an asset or a liability will presumably remain undecided until next winter when it releases its report...
When interviewed, Captain John Michelson said, "We are tired. The long, ten-game schedule is enough." Marshall Goldberg, All-American halfback, said, "I must finish a mid-term paper, make up some quizzes, and hit the books...
...Atlantic Monthly (circ. 105,250) last month, Herbert Hoover recommended a plan for getting his party out of the doldrums: a mid-term Republican National Convention to be held during the next year. Last week, Chairman John Daniel Miller Hamilton announced that his Republican National Committee would meet in Chicago next month to consider seriously what good such a convention would do, decide whether to hold...
...secured. The rules of the University have been altered with an eye to these modern ideas, to carry out the full meaning of these changes must be the work of the faculty who in their courses should co-operate with these alterations and eliminate the necessity of annoying mid-term checkups...
...Government Premier Daladier had soon to answer the questions of M. Flandin, to tackle the problems they aroused. French reporters have one adjective for him, solide. Stocky, blue-eyed, pugnacious, he is no orator like Herriot or the late great Briand. He is acquiring Calvin Coolidge's mid-term reputation for quiet stability...