Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rubbed his hands over this report was a tall young Bostonian named Melvin Maynard Johnson Jr. Captain (Marine Corps Reserve) Johnson wants the Army to buy a semi-automatic rifle which he has designed. The Army has tested the Johnson rifle, says the Garand is better, has not published enough comparative data to prove or disprove its statement. "Ideal for combat and for battlefield firing," Major General Walter C. Short called the Garand last week, reporting its performance in Army maneuvers. Expert Ness rates the Johnson far above the Garand...
Last March a House subcommittee threshed out the Garand argument with the Army's Chief of Ordnance Charles M. Wesson. Cagey, capable Major General Wesson stood up for the Garand ("the best semi-automatic rifle ever considered by the Army"). When Congressmen wanted to know who originally sponsored the Garand, General Wesson passed the buck to the Infantry. He also confirmed a rumor which reflects more grave ly on Army bureaucrats than on their new rifle. In the fourth year (1939) of Garand tests, the Army discovered a de fect so serious that a new barrel...
...this election is opposition but not too much opposition. Last March Candidate Batista made a deal with General Mario Garcia Menocal who thereupon withdrew his candidacy. Then the remaining opposition parties got together on Dr. Grau, with the understanding that the vice-presidential nomination should go to the ABC (semi-Fascist) candidate, Joaquin Martinez Saenz, that the Republican Action Party's leader, onetime President Miguel Mariano Gómez, should be the nominee for Mayor of Havana, No. 2 political job on the island. But election laws require that each party nominate a full ticket, which later...
...that rumbled through Europe and Asia. But though her artists copied Genghis Khan's Chinese painters, Greek sculpture and the primitives of 14th-Century Italians, they made their Persian versions as characteristically Persian as an Isfahan carpet. The Persians concentrated on decoration, distorted their figures and landscapes into semi-abstract patterns, prized neatly filled space more than neatly copied nature...
...nudes by Ted Weren '42 show a well-controlled line together with a great facility for producing a balanced chiaroscuro effect. One of the nudes, which is resolved into a semi-cubistic interpretation of the female body, serves as a fine example of just what lies behind cubism; the figure is handled from the point of view of planes and solids, and the relationship between the parts of the anatomy and the shapes which signify them can be clearly seen...