Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week was the 165-page report of the U.N. Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) containing two diverging plans. UNSCOP's majority favored partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab nations, with independence set for Sept. 1, 1949. The minority plan (advanced by India, Persia and Yugoslavia) proposed semi-autonomous Jewish and Arab states within a Palestine federation, in which, because of greater numbers, the Arabs would elect the chief executive. Zionists regarded the majority plan as better than nothing. Arabs denounced both plans, opposed a Jewish state of any kind in Palestine...
Four goals in the first half and two in the second added up to an unofficial 6 to 1 victory for the Crimson Varsity over the semi-pre eleven from the Boston District league...
Half an hour before the football game gets under way, the Varsity soccer team will got its first taste of outside opposition when the Worcester Scandinavians visit the Business School to play a scrimmage with the Crimson. A semi-pro team made up of men who live around Worcester, the Scans play a fast-breaking, passing game which puts the emphasis on condition...
...Senator was honestly startled by all the furor, but after the first shock, he seemed almost resigned. His western tour had been playing him tricks almost since he began planning it. He had hoped to make a quiet, semi-vacation trip, sounding out the reaction to his hopes for the presidency. But speaking invitations had begun pouring...
Favors Granted. The trouble began when the powerful semi-official National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia urged exporters to ship only on the eight vessels of the Great Colombia Fleet (Flotá Mercante Gran Colombiana). Coffee exporters were glad to go along; they did not like the recent 25% increase in freight rates by U.S. lines. Besides, like most Colombians, they are proud of the fleet, which began operations last spring (TIME, May 5) under the joint sponsorship of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador, to break what was regarded as a U.S. shipping monopoly. The Colombian Government has helped with...