Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...building sewage seeps from the pipes constantly. "We have to keep mopping, mopping to hold down the stench," said Dr. Woolley. A basement dormitory housing 89 semi-invalids has eight barred windows, one stairway, no fire escapes. "I wake up at night in horror over this place," confessed Dr. Woolley. "I can see myself . . . after a fire, charged with the responsibility of roasting these people to death...
Entitled simply The Cheese Omelette Clubbe after a motion to name it The Cheese Omeletic Institute of 1941 was defeated, the organization is headed by gourmet Rufus Mathewson '41 and gourmand Nelson Gidding '41. Its seven members plan to meet in one of Mr. Cronin's semi-private dining rooms on Monday evenings, order their "omelettes epatants" from the special chef, and dine before the awed gazes of uninitiated onlookers...
...appreciate the endless, grab-bag complexity of Interior's duties-understandable. Interior sells electricity, protects the Indians, manages forests, preserves historic buildings, sets minimum soft-coal prices, interferes in the government of Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, rules Western cattle ranges, settles irrigated areas in semi-arid regions, watches over wild life and fish. All these sprawling activities are linked by a central theme: conservation of natural resources...
Captain Don Donahue has entered the invitation 45-yard high hurdles. In the pole vault event are Chester d' Autremont and Mitchell Ford, who reached 13 feet at the Garden last year. Trial heat and semi-final events will be held in the afternoon and all finals in the evening...
...diversified are its activities that many an outsider forgets it is a religious organization, thinks of it as a chain of semi-public young men's clubs, with swimming pools, gymnasiums and clean beds. But Florida-born Eugene Barnett knows it where it is poorer and tougher, for this is his first job in 30 years outside the Y's foreign service. From 1910 to 1936 he was on duty in China. From 1937 to 1940 he was globe-trotting as head of the Y's World Service Program in 28 countries...