Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brandeis. whom they had sneeringly dubbed "Saint Louis of Boston." He was no political radical. He was almost mystically a believer in the individual. The son of a middle-class Bohemian immigrant who had fled after the European revolutions of 1848, Brandeis was born (Nov. 13, 1856) into the semi-frontier society of Kentucky, in an atmosphere of deeply felt, unquenchable individualism...
...field army in Iceland is headed by cob-nosed, soft-spoken Major General Charles H. Bonesteel, formerly in command of the Fifth Division. His force, complete from infantry to ordnance units, is equipped with everything from Garand semi-automatic rifles to fighter planes, telephone poles to cement mixers. Well-secured against Iceland weather, each of his men has been issued fur caps, wool-lined mackinaws, heavy galoshes, gloves, five pairs of shoes, heavy underclothes and socks in addition to regular work clothes and uniforms. Each soldier also has a pair of skis and snowshoes...
...Roosevelt early this year (TIME, Jan. 20). He determines housing needs in defense areas, then certifies the need to the President. F.D.R. stamps his O.K. on Palmer's findings, sends them to Carmody, in charge of actual construction. Carmody, in turn, assigns each job to one of nine semi-independent agencies...
LONDON, Thursday--The German capture of Orel, 210 miles south of Moscow, and a semi-official appeal from Russia for British help caused grave anxiety today over the turn of events on the Eastern Front...
...present generation of Harvard undergraduates never knew Professor Kittredge as a teacher. To us he was always a semi-legendary figure whom we saw now and then ambling through the Yard, easily distinguishable by his flowing white beard...