Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gates of Air Associates, Inc., of Bendix, N.J., rolled trucks filled with U.S. troops. Armed with machine guns, semi-automatic rifles, fixed bayonets, 2,100 soldiers clambered down and took possession of the factory. For the third time in five months the Government seized a defense plant to settle a labor trouble...
...Correspondent Hallett Abend, in a wireless to the New York Times, paid unwilling tribute to Nipponese ingenuity. Said he: "Other semi-hostile Japanese naval actions have been openly conducted, without the slightest attempt at secrecy, always keeping 2,000 yards beyond the utmost range of American coast-defense batteries. The only disturbing feature of this phase of Japanese naval activity is how Japanese espionage agents have so accurately learned the extreme shooting range of the shore batteries...
...throw out the CCC and other New Deal aids to the underprivileged, Congress should realize that wars are won at the supper table and in the dentist's and doctor's office, as well as on the drill fields of Devens. Using the CCC as framework, a series of semi-military camps could be set up to strengthen American youth both for battle and for peace. Anyone rejected for remedial defects should be at once subject to this physical reconditioning. No nations can hope to be strong with half its young men growing up as weaklings-to do something about...
KUIBYSHEV, Russia--German panzer columns prowled along a 35-mile battle line semi-circling MOSCOW in vain search of a weak spot today, reportedly on orders from Adolf Hitler to seize the Soviet capital by Friday, 24th anniversary of the Red Revolution, war dispatches said...
...present, the orchestra is composed of about 45 members. It was founded in 1808, mainly for the purpose of serenading professors' daughters and playing popular or semi-popular music. For a period around 1832, the group had but one member, who met and kept notes of these meetings so as to preserve uninterrupted the tradition of the society...