Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Discussion of another proposal revealed the vicious circle of reasoning underlying the whole manpower shortage debate. When some repatriated Italian prisoners of war indicated that they would like to return to Britain and work on the farms, the semi-official objection was that Britain's food shortage was so grave that the nation could not take responsibility for feeding extra mouths. In fact, importation of foreign labor was political dynamite because labor's rank & file jealously opposed it. The alternative-a deep cut in the Armed Forces and Auxiliaries (1,510,000 men & women)-would mean a serious...
After reaching the semi-finals of the Michigan State Amateur tourney during the same three years, he went all the way to win in 1939, nosing out Yale-man John Bailey in the final round. With this title tucked away, Barclay turned pro the next year, taking a job at Cadillac, Michigan, for the season...
...pole vaulter, finished second in his department with a hoist of 13 feet, while Bill Lawrence's 12.6 jump earned him third place. Both Varsity sprinters, Harvey Thayer and Bob Toppan, failed to place against a classy field of 50-yard dash contestants, although Thayer reached the semi-finals, and the Harvard two-mile relay team finished third in a field...
Also in the books is the publication of a semi-yearly art magazine tentatively bearing the title, The Harvard Art Journal. With this entry in the field of University publications, the place occupied by the long defunct Hound and Horn magazine will be filled...
...machine's range of acceptance is strictly limited. It cannot examine a field and a pretty girl, and conclude from the data available which would be more worth cultivating. Such semi-tangibles are not for it. Figures alone it accepts, in floods and mazes. Quick as a midget's wink, it adds, subtracts, multiplies, divides, raises to powers, extracts roots (square or better). It blends the figures together, mixes them with constants such as the speed of light. "It's a robot," says Dr. Aiken, "and does just what it's told...