Word: midpoint
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...though. Against a better team, the Crimson could have been in big trouble, particularly during a mistake-filled and badly executed first half. Harvard just couldn't get anything done in those first 20 minutes, playing at Brandeis' level on the way to a 32-all deadlock at the midpoint...
...just two points, 47-45, at the midpoint of the game, the Crimson took charge with about 10 minutes left to play. Mannix and Taylor continued to move the ball inside to Trout, who displayed some fancy moves down under for 10 second-half points to add to his total of 13 in the first twenty minutes...
Just one thing has never changed: Bear Bryant has always won football games. In 35 years as a head coach, Bryant has won 298 games, lost 77 and tied 16. Before the 1980 season reaches its midpoint, he will become only the third coach to win 300 games. Late next year he should pass Pop Warner (313) and Amos Alonzo Stagg (314) to become the coach with the most victories in college-football history. His teams have won 23 games in a row, currently the longest winning streak in big-time college football. Bryant has taken teams to bowl games...
...problem is not raw numbers. At the end of March, the midpoint in fiscal 1980, the four services had 2,032,000 men and women volunteers in uniform, 96% of the Pentagon's objective. Even more encouraging have been the recruiting results for the first half of the fiscal year; the Pentagon achieved 99% of its goals, compared with 91% last year...
...spring, season of hope, young love, baseball and journalism awards. Each year more than half of all national prizes for editorial and photographic excellence are presented in April, May and June. At the midpoint of this awards season, TIME has already captured a wallful of major honors. Last week the prestigious Overseas Press Club of America added three more. Correspondents Walter Isaacson and Donald Neff were given the O.P.C.'s Mary Hemingway Award for best magazine reporting from abroad, for their work on last year's cover story "The Colombian Connection: Billions in Pot and Coke." Neff interviewed drug enforcement...