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Word: semi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case of married students with children the situation is just reversed. Hardship is more prevalent, and it is only the exceptional family that does not badly need its ninety dollars per month to help meet expenses, or which would buy luxury or semi-luxury goods even if its allotment were upped considerably. For this reason and also because veterans with children were the forgotten men of the GI bill, an increased allotment for this group is reasonable and desirable. Such an increase, instead of distorting the purpose of the GI bill, would help to distribute its benefits more fairly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Citizens First | 11/30/1946 | See Source »

...Association, says founder Robert L. Metters '50, is designed particularly for students who are not able to fit Fine Arts courses into their programs but who are interested in keeping abreast of the subject. In addition to its bi-weekly presentation of speakers, the group will publish a semi-annual art journal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Art Club to Hold First Meeting Tuesday | 11/29/1946 | See Source »

With a discussion on the desirability of increasing veterans' subsistence allowances heading the agenda, the Harvard Chapter of the American Veterans Committee will hold its regularly scheduled semi-monthly meeting tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock in Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AVC Meeting Planned For Tomorrow Night | 11/19/1946 | See Source »

...Turning Point (Lenfilm-Arikino) is a Russian-made semi-documentary billed as the "inside story" of the siege of Stalingrad. The film is superb Soviet propaganda, an interesting historical footnote to one of World War II's decisive battles-and surprisingly exciting entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Nov. 18, 1946 | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...Fischer is not the only pianist who is content to stay where he is. Alfred Cortot, well over seventy and in semi-retirement, gave a recital of the twenty-four precludes and twenty-four etudes of Chopin. During the Rencontres Internationales at Geneva in September, at which Europe's leading intellectuals met to try to bring some unity to the post-war's ideological tangle, Wilhelm Bachaus appeared to give a recital of Beethoven sonatas and another of piano quintets with the redoubtable French Lowenguth quartet...

Author: By Otto A. Friedrich, | Title: The Music Box | 11/16/1946 | See Source »

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