Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pamphlets, and publicity to bring pressure on the club, was to induce the operators of the club, actually to run it as a private organization (which would have every right to select its own membership on any basis it might choose) or, if the club is to remain a semi-public establishment to open its facilities to all comers...
...ping-pong shot) were not in top form, but his ebullient disposition was (chasing a drive, he landed in a spectator's lap, apologized with a winning Gallic bow). Frank Shields's big service was too big for Borotra, just as it had been in the Wimbledon semi-finals 16 years ago. Score: 12-10, 6-2. Smiled the Bounding Basque, who plans no serious comeback: "A most pleasant affair. I played badly...
Meeting in Washington's Willard Hotel simultaneously with the newly-formed liberal organization, Americans for Democratic Action, 154 students from 44 colleges and schools from all parts of the nation organized Students for Democratic Action, a national liberal student body to work in a semi-autonomous status with the ADA. Don S. Willner '47, former president of BLU, was elected national chairman of the new organization at the end of the three-day convention which started on March...
...still going strong but his new show in a Manhattan gallery last week lacked something-the schoolgirl perhaps-which made that first exhibition memorable. Dada was a granddad now. And nowadays the visitors brandished checkbooks instead of hatchets. Instead of a live little virgin they found merely a semi-abstract painting distinguished by two nobbed streaks representing breasts or eyes, and entitled Foolish Virgins...
...President's order makes each department responsible for its own personnel, allows hearings at which the applicant and counsel may be present, establishes criteria of disloyalty, and permits appeal of two levels within the semi-judicial structure of the "Loyalty Review Board," now to be a part of the Civil Service Commission. It establishes uniform procedures where authoritarian secrecy existed before...