Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Which town will get the county seat? Which city is the biggest, busiest and best? Rich and raucous is the American tradition of debate on such matters. It sounded a little odd last week in the oak-paneled, semi-ecclesiastical room of London's Church House, where world statesmen were considering where the world's capital-the permanent seat of UNO-should...
...Formal by preference" and "informal by necessity" is the way the Yale Dance Committee describes the dance this Saturday. Although a formal affair has been planned, Harvard commuters and their dates will be admitted in semi-formal or street wear, and corsages are not permitted...
Born. To Eddie Condon, 39, guitarist, leader of Manhattan's "pure" jazzmen (who scorn "semi-pro" canned jive and give concerts at Carnegie Hall) ; and Phyllis Reay Condon, 37, magazine writer: their second child, second daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Liza (from the title of his first recording). Weight...
...that Mrs. Edith Helm, social secretary at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and Miss Reathal Odum, Mrs. Truman's personal secretary, would meet the ladies of the press. The meeting was not on the second, or family, floor, where Eleanor Roosevelt used to chat with the girls, but in the semi-public Green Room...
...plum-plump dictator approached his ninth anniversary as Chief of the Spanish State, the tree was shaken vigorously at a typically spectacular rally in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. There Russian anger and British impatience with the lingering Fascist regime were semi-officially proclaimed. Cried Nikolai Novikov, Soviet charge d'affaires in the U.S.: "The peoples of the Soviet Union hope that General Franco, this hireling of Hitler and Mussolini, will receive what is coming to him and his regime of Fascist dictatorship will be abolished...