Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was, nonetheless, an Event of the Year, possibly the event of many years. Early in 1946, long before anyone had expected or even hoped for it, the U.S. achieved the semi-utopian goal of full (i.e., optimum) employment in peacetime. In September, the number of people at work reached a record peacetime high of nearly 58,000,000 (the unemployed numbered less than 2,000,000, of whom 700,000 were recently discharged veterans). The millions in the armed forces had been smoothly absorbed into civilian life - and jobs. And the fact that the Chicago Tribune at year...
...Garden was certainly justified by the size of the student body and the following that this year's five would inherit from '45's championship team and this year's successful season. If the popularity built up by last year's performances, which took Harvard to the semi-finals at Madison Square Garden, was to be maintained without frustrating too many fans, transfer to the Garden was an obvious necessity...
...played at Wabash High School, where he set a conference scoring record by racking up 251 points in 12 contests. During the entire season he scored 470 points while his team was winning 20 and dropping four. Rockwell capped his all-round performance by leading his five into the semi-finals of the state tournament...
...case, Carlson's story recounts perilous personal sleuthing under the alias of "Robert Thompson, Nationalist Veteran." Despite a lack of technical slickness, the book's of feet is Shock, penetrating with the knowledge that a minimum of 5,000,000 ex-servicemen are unorganized, politically impressionable, socially semi-literate, and that we are due for hard times when demagogues may make hay. You are reminded that the fanatics serve as the fall guys of this country's fascism; that the root of the evil lies in the transmission belt from rabble-rouser to Big Money, "the link between the dirty...
Also on the slate is a game with the Boston Junior Olympics, an aggregation of questionable semi-pro status, and the aforementioned opener with the B.A.A., a team composed largely of Harvard graduates, and boasting this year four Hardings and a Mechem...