Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grounded. Patterson's machinelike way of operating enables him to get through an enormous amount of work in jigtime. In addition to bossing United, he is a director in three non-aviation companies. Yet his desk in his blue-green, semi-paneled office, across from Chicago's Municipal Airport, is usually clean of work. Sometimes he dictates for hours. He does it methodically, seldom fumbling for a word. He used to lunch at his desk, but an attack of stomach ulcers cured him of that. (The ulcers are also cured now.) As a result, he is a careful...
...Semi-professional criticism is offered in the few creative writing courses available, but the courses lack the aid of a creative artist to teach either prose on poetry, although Schwartz and Kempton come closer to the mark than Morrison or Spencer. The chief shortcoming in this field is the limited number of students that can be accomodated in the few courses given...
Briefly slated, the chief area of disagreement in to what extent the many semi-socialistic, debtor nations, particularly the United Kingdom, are willing to relax their closely gripped trade reins and exchange concessions with the great creditor nation, the United States, devoted to a lively, but often capricious free-enterprise system. The first group of nations places a high level of employment and security from depression well before expansion or profits. As one London paper stated on the eve of the meetings, "These countries think that the first task is not to increase world trade but to make its flow...
...that De Gaulle represented resistance of a different and bolder sort than Vichy's, but argues that he had no proved following in French territory until later in the war. Langer also echoes opinions widely held in wartime Washington and London: De Gaulle too had his share of "semi-fascist political and social views"; he was "personally vain and ambitious, self-centered and almost impossible to deal with...
...team, with no boxers in heavier than the lightweight class, upheld Hawaii's fighting tradition stressing speed and fast hitting, to place five men in the semi-finals. Though three made the finals, none managed to win a title...