Word: midways
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First reports of the fracas definitely identified only one participant. He was Lieut. Randolph Dickins Jr., of Bradenton, Fla., 6 ft. 2 in., a hero of the Battle of Midway, who had been a combat-fatigue patient at the Navy's Bethesda for ten weeks, after 42 months' service. After the story had broken, Navy superiors permitted Lieut. Dickins to tell his side...
...wasn't until midway through the second quarter that Quinn dropped on a fumble behind the Adams goal line for the first Eliot score. Quinn rushed the extra point across to make the halftime score 7-0. Adams fought back on passes by Captain Coburn, but could get no where against the hard-charging Eliot forward wall. In the third period Johnny Boyce scampered 13 yards off tackle to put Eliot out in front 13-0. A fourth-quarter Kelley to Boyce touchdown heave closed the afternoon's scoring and when the conversion succeeded, Eliot led 20-0. Outclassed...
Leonard Pesses brought out the deck of cards midway in the evening to start a bridge session. There were some intense games and his baby slams were re- ported by the Cambridge seismograph as suspicious earthquake tremors...
...grandeur of its appearance contrast with the simplicity of the Colonial red brick by which it is surrounded on all sides, and add a touch of Kiang Province, home of the monument for over a century, to the otherwise austere College Yard. Situated just west of Widener Library, about midway down the length of the building, the white marble structure is well preserved despite...
...crowd that packed the avenue from buildings to nearly midway of the road was a crowd of every kind of people. One woman, at least 70 years old, stood atop a ladder twelve feet above the sidewalk. Others climbed trees, peered out from windows and roofs. Perhaps not since Bastille Day had the people of France celebrated such a victory...