Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...professional language. Wrote some technicians stationed at the U.S. Army Air Corps' experimental station at Wright Field, Ohio: ". . . Now that the lid is off, we would like your readers to know that since 1944 no Army plane has taken off without a midget encabulator securely latchetted to the semi-radical baltrop of its estrangulated wickerbill...
...walk with Freshman Thompson in the p.m. Visited a cider-mill [and] got some sweet cider and good apples. Conversation ranged widely: religion, poetry, schoolteaching, genius, societies, etc. . . . [With another student] discussed the Episcopal Church . . . preaching, prostitution, and a variety of other subjects. . . . Found the North College semi-joe [outhouse] all in a blaze, surrounded by students apparently not very anxious...
...formation of an undergraduate operated furniture exchange to buy furniture at a fair price from men leaving college and to sell it to new men as cheaply as possible. The exchange, though college wide, might be operated in each House by an agent of the House Committee. Its semi-official character would enable it to negotiate with House janitors for storage space over periods when the stock of furniture exceeds the demand...
...from-cops school of journalism as Ben Hecht. Stanley Walker and the late Courtney Ryley Cooper, whose credo is that the old bars were the best, and that the only thing to do with a tall tale is to make it taller. Solo has many moments of awed moralizing, semi-penitential, Hollywood-haunted sentiment. But throughout runs a vein of the old, Rocky Mountain, free-&-easy Fowler yarning...
These concerts, a regular spring feature of the Glee Club, will include selections from the music of George Gershwin, Gilbert and Sullivan, and other semi-classical composers...