Word: midways
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...Midway through the proceedings the mikes went dead, and a weird, otherworldly hum replaced human voices. A Bronx mouse at play behind the scenes had gnawed through wire insulation, shorted the sound system...
Temporarily, at least, the military meridian which U.S. strategists had sought to push eastward across the Atlantic was rectified in midocean. But far to the south, it bent eastward: the little ash-heap of Ascension, whose importance was not realized until midway in the war, was under British sovereignty, and the British would be reasonable. Nearer home, the chain of Western Hemisphere bases from Newfoundland to British Guiana, obtained in the destroyer deal of 1940, was secure for 93 more years...
...operates two million acres of palm-oil plantations in the Belgian Congo, 300,000 acres of coconut plantations in the Solomon Islands. It has its own freighter service between West Africa and England, sends three fleets of its own trawlers into the North Sea for fish (until midway in World War II, Unilever operated 17 of the world's fastest whalers...
...Great Books" had long ago scored a smash hit before the undergrads on the University of Chicago's Midway 'TIME, Oct. 24,1938). Last week it was on he road, to play to adults, on a four-city circuit. Chicago's Chancellor Robert Maynard Hutchins expects the idea to spread, within five years, to 150,000 people in 36 cities...
...more other scientists were working with "subcritical masses" of uranium or plutonium. Kept apart, these masses were lifeless as lead, but if brought together to form a mass above "critical" size, a chain reaction would start. Its violence would depend on the character of the materials. Probably they were midway in activity between mild-mannered natural uranium and furious plutonium...