At length, just before half-time, a thing happened which very nearly caused Mr. Blake's followers to break their promise.

No exception or compromise is allowed, and no "half-time" system or "rush" through the school to suit the convenience of the factory or the farmer.

During the war with France there had been a demand for every sort of manufactures; but the peace cut off this demand, and the factories were either closed or were running on half-time.

Beyond this, there was during the month of August, an enormous amount of short time; in several industries for which particulars are available, thousands of workpeople were working half-time or less.

In the woollen trade, "about 60 per cent of the workpeople covered by the returns received were on short time, including over 20 per cent who were working half-time or less."

It imposes the half-time system on all children, admitting, however, two methods, either of passing half the day in school, and half at work, or of giving alternate days to work and school.

It has upon it a Greek inscription in the painter's own hand which runs in English as follows: "This picture I, Alessandro, painted at the end of the year 1500, in the troubles of Italy, in the half-time after the time during the fulfilment of the eleventh of St. John, in the second woe of the Apocalypse, in the loosing of the devil for three years and a half.

He was not, however, to give up his studies; and as it is customary to allow half-time to students engaged in school-keeping,that is, to count a year, so employed, if the student also keep on with his professional studies, as equal to six months of the three years he is expected to be under an instructor before applying for his degree,he would not necessarily lose more than a few months of time.

In every big city there are hundreds of young married women who take half-time jobs in our department stores or who help to staff the lunch-rooms or wash up or carry trays, or act as cashiers in our innumerable restaurants.

A worker who is in a position to accept voluntarily a half-time job of this sort is one who must have some other means of meeting part of her living expenses.

For this still limited number of half-time married women workers are but the leaf on the stream, showing the direction events are taking.

Above and between the guns I heard their shouts and cheers, and the shrill whistle for "half-time," though there was no half-time in the other game so close to them.

Above and between the guns I heard their shouts and cheers, and the shrill whistle for "half-time," though there was no half-time in the other game so close to them.

Band pageantry; five "half-time" field shows, conductor's manual.

Band pageantry; five "half-time" field shows, conductor's manual.

" My stock fell thirty points and I crumbled bread nervously, hoping for something sensible to say; but at this moment "half-time" mercifully set in.