Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strong by shouldering 200-lb. blocks of ice. Last week his old ice-wagon employer recalled his prodigious appetite: "That boy et mo' than the bosses." Satchel was born 31 years ago on Mobile's South Side. The boy played on the sandlots, then with a semi-pro outfit, then with the Chattanooga Black Lookouts. Up in the big time, he was the ace of the Pittsburgh Crawfords for seven years. The famed Homestead (Pa.) Grays snatched him up, and he found himself riding high on $250 a game, averaging one game a week. Last year he went...
...organized into two major leagues. Some teams operate in the same towns as the white majors (New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Washington, Philadelphia), others in smaller towns (e.g., Birmingham, Jacksonville, Baltimore). There are besides, innumerable unaffiliated small-town teams, mostly barnstormers. Some Negroes play with white semi-pro teams. But no Negro plays in the white major leagues...
High in the Pyrenees Mountains, a cluster of craggy valleys comprises the semi-independent State of Andorra. A relic of the Middle Ages, the little (191 sq. mi.) country has been under the joint suzerainty of the French Government and the Spanish Bishop of Urgel since 1278, pays them a yearly tribute of about $86 in goats, sheep, cucumbers, other produce. Its 5,500 inhabitants scratch a hard living from the barren, upended land...
FIELD EVENTS Pole Vault (Trials and Final)2:00 Shot Put (Final) 2:00 Javelin Throw (Final) 2:45 High Jump (Trials and Final) 3:00 Discus Throw (Final) 3:00 Broad Jump (Final) 3:00 Hammer Throw (Final) 3:30 TRACK EVENTS 120-yd. High Hurdles (Semi-Finals) 2:45 100-yd. Dash (Semi-Finals) 2:55 One Mile Run 3:05 120-yd. High Hurdles (Heat for extra qualifiers) 3:15 440-yd. Run (Final) 3:25 120-yd. High Hurdles (Final) 3:35 100-yd. Dash (Final) 3:45 Two Mile...
...brooms (with the possible exception of Lord Beaverbrook). He earned his job, the crucial one of gearing Britain's industries to war production, partly by lambasting his predecessor for inefficiency and corruption. Britain's steel industry is run by the Steel Control Committee, a semi-Governmental carbon copy of the British Iron & Steel Federation. It allocates production quotas among mills in Britain, most of which are old and technologically out of date. In sheet and tin-plate capacity, there is only one modern, high-speed, continuous mill installed in all Britain. But that mill is reported...