Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carefully reared by his father in the traditions of personalized private banking. But his own and his father's flair for men surrounded him with partners whose brilliance obscured everything but the Morgan name. Stotesbury, Stettinius, Cochran, Lament, Morrow, Davison-such men made the term "Morgan partner" a semi-mythical synonym not only for (at one time) $1,000,000 a year, but for financial diplomacy on an international scale. When War came, it was Partners Henry P. Davison and Dwight W. Morrow who led the House of Morgan into its second great era. Early embracing the English cause...
John Levi actually looks as if his name should be Paddy O'Rourke. He also looks and lives like what he is: a well-off, semi-retired businessman who has softened with the easy years. But in his town's peculiar politics, he is as hard as a stonecrab...
...France, Duran's Party is a conglomeration of big & little businessmen, professionals and skilled workmen. They represent the aspirations of the Chilean bourgeoisie to develop their own industry and commerce, to get a share of the business now in the hands of foreign capital, to break up the semi-feudalism of agriculture. Their struggle against reaction led to their alliance with Chile's Socialists and Communists to elect Don Tinto President in 1938, but many now think that the aims of their fellow travelers are bad for business, and one who so thinks is Leader Florencio...
Staten Island is a broad, semi-rusticky borough (Richmond) in New York Harbor, 57 square miles of suburb off the starboard beam of the Statue of Liberty. It is dotted with Dutch names like New Dorp, Kill van Kull, factories, and about 100 real farms. At least one of its 160,000 residents is nationally famed. He is hoary, old Poet Edwin Markham (The Man with the Hoe, Lincoln, the Man of the People), now an enfeebled, house-ridden codger...
...Mikkola-men were somewhat out of their class in other events: Dan Donahue slid into the semi-finals in the 45 yard high hurdles, but was eliminated in the fast 5 7-10 finals time. Tommy Lussen of Yale only placed second with a 14 foot pole vault, a foot over Steve Madey's best. The two mile relay team was lapped by the record-breaking Manhattan College foursome...