Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pass from "station" to "station" (usually farmhouses or barns off the beaten track). Before they get out of eastern Europe, the travelers have usually been despoiled of their meager belongings by bribe-taking frontier officials. Munich, in the U.S. zone of Germany, is the great clearing center for the semi-final lap to the Mediterranean...
...through the college yesterday that the Radcliffe girl who masqueraded as a man on Saturday in an unsuccessful attempt to win the HDC's "Mr. Harvard of 1946" title had been the subject of severe disciplinary action by the Radcliffe administration could not be verified last night, as a semi-official veil of censorship was hung over the girl concorned...
...Semi-Private. In Cincinnati, a housewife suffered rude disillusionment after six months of confident belief in her special "one-way vision" bathroom window...
...term lists the average rent at $115, but when I signed up for a room the cheapest one I could apply for as a non-scholarship student was $137.50. Thus my roommate and I pay $275 for four months leasage of a living room, two sleeping nooks, and a semi-private bath. That is about $69 a month rent-more than several married friends of mine pay for four room apartments in privately owned buildings much newer than the century old Yard dormitories. Yet the authorities of Harvard University have the nerve to announce a series of rent increases varying...
...original machine had a base-plate of prefabulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with the pentametric fan. . . . The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-delta type placed in panendermic semi-boloid slots in the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a nonreversible trem'e pipe to the differential girdlespring on the 'up' end of the grammeters...