Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same period, prices of all semi-manufactured materials went up an average of 127% in War I; in War II, only...
...Bachman and Driscoll, Cook-who was a three-letter man at De Pauw University-had chosen basketball as a professional career. For ten years (1920-30) he produced razzle-dazzle quintets at Indiana's Central Normal College; nursed one, composed of five brothers named Reeves, along to the semi-finals of the 1929 National A.A.U. basketball tournament...
...reports Barsetshire during the Battle of Britain. Its large cast of small-town Britons is so very whimsical, lovable and British that they constantly threaten to slip into vaudeville (but never quite do). Nothing in particular happens to any of them. But the day-to-day record of their semi-humorous plane-watchings, their quiet contempt for "our little friend with the moustache," their unruffled adjustments to blackouts, to ill-mannered evacuees, to billeted officers, to shoddy goods "which, if we describe them as Empire, will be sufficiently described," to food shortages and to death's imminence make this...
...this is double the January quota set a month ago, it made the manufacturers feel pretty chipper. Washington did not. Only reason for any automobiles at all in January is that the automakers jiggled the priorities-allocations machinery artfully enough to pile up $213,000,000 in finished and semi-finished parts. None of these parts can be used in war work, so Washington ruefully okayed the quota boost. This will use up $100,000,000 worth of parts; the balance will be put away for spares...
Pied Piper reads like a semi-final draft for one of the best sentimental novels to come out of World War II. The telling is not all it might be, but the materials of the tale are surefire...