Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reality. In Beaver Falls, Pa., steelworkers poured molten metal into a mold, watched the melt slowly make its way down a 75-ft. tower, to be cooled, cut and ejected as a steel billet ready to be shipped. Commercial steel had at last been cast from molten to semi-finished state in one continuous process...
Street With No Name. A skilful, conventional semi-documentary about G-men and young criminals, with Richard Widmark and Mark Stevens (TIME...
...Said he: "It's a scandal, a disaster. The eyes of the world are turned to America and the greatest country in the world cannot even have an opera house! It looks as if we're only interested in jazz and crooning and all the semi-things...
Melchior, who makes more money in such semi-things as Hollywood musicals than he does at the Met, volunteered to stage some of the operas he knows best-Wagner's Tristan tmd Isolde and part of the Ring Cycle ("ones with not too big a chorus")-with his fellow stars pitching in "on a cooperative basis." If the operas went over, he would try some others. And if he couldn't produce them in the Met, he would do it in a Broadway theater...
Return of the Bad Men (RKO Radio] has enough bad men in the cast to stock a year's output of westerns. It includes such semi-legendary desperadoes as Billy the Kid, Wild Bill Doolin, Wild Bill Yeager, The Arkansas Kid, Cole, Jim & John Younger, Emmett, Bob & Grat Dalton, and the Sundance Kid. Unfortunately, it turns out to be a case of too many crooks: most of these villains, though fairly well cast and reasonably picturesque, merely get in the way of each other's villainy...