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Word: semi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throwing off the traditional shackles of college songs and football marches which have made up the fare of the University Band for the last 20 years, "the best in the business" will present a concert of classical and semi-classical music at Sanders Theatre on April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Plans Shift To Classical Gems In April Concert | 3/27/1947 | See Source »

Dick spent part of the late-afternoon workout conferring with his aides and with Captain Vince Moravec, but then moved on to watch a semi-scrimmage in which line-coach Hal Kopp was pitting his charges against each other in a series of simple plays...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, | Title: Spring Grid Drills Intensified with Arrival of Harlow at Briggs Cage | 3/22/1947 | See Source »

Mayer to Warner. L.B. watched intently, talked little, listened closely as his friend and lawyer, Neil McCarthy, bid up to $135,000 for the mare Busher. McCarthy figured he had a good buy even though the 1945 Horse of the Year was a semi-cripple. Said he: "I've already been offered $50,000 for her first foal. . . . What better investment could a man make?" Most other bids looked dizzily high. Mayer had picked a good time to sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winners for Sale | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...electric hedge clipper ($44.50) and a flamethrower for killing weeds and soil bacteria ($23.50). Much postwar equipment was made of light-weight metals; there were a rubber-tired magnesium wheelbarrow (16 Ibs., $34.50), and an aluminum rake ($5). Neater still, there was a garden hose made of amber-colored, semi-transparent plastic ($13-35 for 50 feet). In the routine descriptive words of garden men, it was "guaranteed to last a lifetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Step Right Up, Folks | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

Recent instances of semi-false fire alarms reached epidemic proportions yesterday, as an estimated nine Cambridge fire trucks and accompanying flame-fighters helped Martin L. Frank '47 start up his 1937 Ford in a parking lot near Leverett House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Balky Ford Calls Out Band of Firefighters | 3/4/1947 | See Source »

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