Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the world's most spectacularly homeless group of able young men is General Wladyslaw Anders' 160,000-strong II Polish Corps. They were looking to the New World. Argentina would take 20,000 as farmers and technicians. Site of the proposed settlement: the semi-arid plateaus of Patagonia with their thousands of acres of good sheep land...
...confusion that has the veteran student in a tight economic squeeze, Aldrich Durant is forced to voice, administer, and often defend unpopular fiscal policies that stem from the sacrosanct provinces of Harvard's Olympian body, the Corporation. Most of the recent rent and board increases were settled in the semi-monthly meetings of the Corporation, meetings at which all outsiders, from Dean to doorman, are barred. Durant must accept the law as it comes down from the mountain and administer it for the mere mortals of the University...
...provocative drama, the local summer theatre group has been serving up a light diet of mysteries and comedies, spiced by the presence of some well-known personalities in its recent bill-of-fare. Its latest offering, fully in keeping with that policy, is Patrick Hamilton's "Angel Street," the semi-psychological thriller which enjoyed a successful tour some four years ago and subsequently emerged as a Hollywood epic ("Gaslight") in 1944. If Francis Lederer's performance in the "name" role falls short of the standard set by Vincent Price in the original production, there is a compensating performance...
...seven war years the men's singles were as spotty as critics had guessed they would be. But the standard of women's play was high. The women's tournament was dominated by a quartet of California girls, relentless in their success, who all reached the semi-finals of the women's singles...
...part of Britain's belt-tightening, she has frowned on imports of luxury goods. Last week, after six years, Britain coyly smiled again at U.S. exporters. The British Government agreed to allow American manufacturers to export semi-luxury products to the United Kingdom up to 20% of the value of their average annual 1936-38 shipments, in some 38 specified categories. (Canada was already operating under a similar plan.) By mid-August, Britons should have token shipments of artificial silks, costume jewelry, paint, etc. Chief reason for the token shipments is not to please Britons but to please...