Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...servile imitation of foreign experiments," the New Order nevertheless recognized that "some of these experiments possess common sense and beauty." Frenchmen were quick to note that the manifesto of the New Order included no discussion of a constitution, contained no references to any parliamentary body. Alarmed, the semi-official Temps urged, "The institutions of the New France must doubtless be partially elective...
...Texas, from sophisticated Houston to the heart of the brush country, rodeos are supplanting baseball as a favorite Sunday pastime: big-time professional shows, semi-pro affairs put on by peewee promoters, local amateur meets, two-chute matches (popular with gamblers), all-Negro rodeos, kid rodeos, rodeos under floodlights...
Twenty years ago, big oil companies began putting the chancy business of oil discovery on a semi-scientific basis. Scouring the earth's surface with geologists and expensively equipped seismographic crews, they played no hunches, never drilled until they found indication of oil-bearing structure. These methods have vastly lowered the percentage of dry wells drilled. But many an important field (like "Dad" Joiner's huge East Texas discovery in 1930) is still brought in by wildcatters...
Either a pre-season Freshman favorite or a Sophomore dark horse is destined to walk away with the championship of the University tennis world as a result of two hard fought semi-final matches played yesterday on the wind-swept Divinity field-courts...
...first men to reach the semi-finals of the Freshman tourney are Cohn and Burton...