Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pronounced Eek-o-sock or Eck-o-sock, optionally, and not to be confused with UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). UNESCO is a semi-autonomous U.N. body which will probably have head quarters in Paris...
...other valuable outlets such as forums and cultural activities are deemphasized to the extent of step-child treatment. Where the University of Wisconsin conducts a series of public discussions led by outstanding national figures, and where the University of Michigan provides a concert series at low price on a semi-monthly basis, Harvard undergraduates must search about and spend a good deal of money to enjoy the same benefits. It is true that opportunities do exist, but they are not publicized and underwritten to a degree necessary for wide appeal and continued success...
Died. Anthony Lombardi Jr., 14, semi-invalid juvenile delinquent, whose flogging at the Colorado Industrial School for Boys aroused Coloradoans to demand statewide reform of prison practice and discipline (TIME, Sept. 30); of rheumatic heart disease; in Denver. Cried Mrs. Angeline Lombardi: "They killed...
...face of the almost certain presence in Spain of German SS leaders, laboratories, and military equipment, America continues to do business with Franco. Aside from the reprehensibility of dealing with a nation which for almost ten years has held a large and important section of its population in semi-slavery maintaining relations with the cradle of the new European Fascism is almost treason. And until such time as we face the Spanish situation fully and fearlessly, the United States cannot resume its discarded mantle of moral leadership of the world...
Downstairs hung less tempting Temptations. Max Ernst's prizewinning entry showed the Saint racked by nightmare creatures who appeared to be devouring his loins. But the real shocker was Ivan Le Lorraine Albright's painting of grey, semi-decayed women, swathed in nibbling things and fishnets...