Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ISTANBUL,--Shukru Esmer, political editor of the semi-official newspaper Ulus, declared tonight that if Jugoslavia "resists German aggression.... Turkey will fulfill her obligations by aiding Greece and Jugoslavia effectively...
...champions will pound it out in the ring today and tomorrow in the annual University boxing tournament. Over 40 men have entered the six classes ranging from the 121 pound group to the heavyweights. The trial bouts will begin today at 3 o'clock, and the finals and semi-finals will come tomorrow...
...aircraft industry has grown in three years from a midget employing fewer than the knit underwear trade to the focal point of Bill Knudsen's "terrible urgency" which today holds Britain's life in the balance. But he is confused by fragments of ill-ordered, semi-secretive information and misinformation fired at him haphazardly by the press, labor, Government, business. Out of this confusion this week came an encyclopedic attempt to synthesize the whole problem: the all-aviation March issue of FORTUNE...
After winning his first heat, Donahue went on to take third place in the 60 yard high hurdles, beating out all but Ed Dugger of Tufts and Todd of Virginia. Roger Shafer, who ran in the same event, did not fare so well, and came to grief in the semi-finals, where he tripped on the second hurdle. Also in the semi-finals was Doug Pirnie, who fought unsuccessfully for the 60 yard dash crown...
When James John Walker wrote these lyrics, some 30 years ago, he was a Greenwich Village song writer, law student and semi-pro baseball player. His sweetheart sang them in vaudeville, later heard them played at her wedding, when she married the author. When a Miami cabaret orchestra inappropriately struck up the song, at the time of their divorce in 1933, she wept over them...