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Word: semi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South African Broadcasting Corp., a semi-official company under a race-conscious government, banned all recordings of Negro Actor-Singer Paul Robeson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: All in Favor | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. Some progress toward agreement was reported, especially in the talks with Schuman, who has consistently taken a more reasonable view than French officials in Germany. The main question under discussion with the French is their insistence on breaking Germany up into small semi-autonomous governmental units...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: All Too True | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...subject dear to his heart, is confronted with the request: 'Will you now give us seventy-five words on what you've just said?' " ¶ Georgia O'Keeffe spent only sev en well-chosen words in describing her latest painting - a starkly splen did, semi-abstract rendering of the Brooklyn Bridge (see cut) : "This is the Brooklyn Bridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Question & Answers | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...Semi-Wild...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scientists Find 4000-Year-Old Corn | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...York Giant, jumped from the National to the Mexican League in 1946. When he decided to come back to the U.S. two years alter, the American baseball world did not receive him at all kindly; in fact, he couldn't even get a job in the semi-pro loops...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mexican Beanball | 4/2/1949 | See Source »

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