Word: mid-week
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...contest will primarily afford the Varsity a chance to play as a unit and to give its younger members vital game experience. Mid-week scrimmages necessitated dividing the best players to create an interesting workout and thus failed to give the team unified practice...
...time the shouting had died, impartial critics tried to estimate Art Week's serious value. Though artists, big & little, were loud in their joy over Art Week's quantity production, many first-rate artists had either refused to exhibit or had hung their least salable work. Though by mid-week Cleveland bought $1,250, San Francisco $1,300, New Orleans $210.15, Los Angeles $2,000, Denver $600, Jacksonville $580, Portland, Ore., $329.10 and New York City $2,700 worth of art, sales managers, disappointed in these figures, figured that Art Week's main purpose (selling...
...mid-week this postponement became official. Reason: Army supply services had broken down sadly in some areas. Troops at Fort Dix in New Jersey, at Camp Upton in New York, even at Fort McClellan in "sunny" Alabama, battled mud, cold, rain, the discomforts of temporary housing in tents, on the whole kept their chins up if not dry. But strikes, bad weather, poor planning in some instances delayed construction of permanent bar racks, finally caused the Army to put off calling its second quota of 60,000 trainees until early next year. Originally, the plan was to have...
...well advanced was this malaise by mid-week that Secretary of War Henry Lewis Stimson and General Marshall had to go up Capitol Hill, plead for action which most U. S. people already wanted. After three weeks in his new job, 72-year-old Mr. Stimson looked a little worn. His voice quavered, alike from weariness and irritation. But in his grave, informed statement of U. S. peril in Hitler's world, Henry Stimson pulled no punches. House committee quibblers drove him to distraction, finally drove him to his best line of the day: "All this talk of wait...
...Vistula. In Moscow, where fortnight ago overcoats were still in order, the temperature rose to 79°. The temperature reached 93° in France, sending practically all of Paris to sipping beer and lemonade in outdoor cafes or to swimming in the dozens of floating pools in the Seine. Mid-week thunder showers brought relief...