Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great speech. Franklin Roosevelt revealed almost nothing which had not been said in the Yalta Communique, or in semi-official explanations afterward, or by Winston Churchill in his report to the House of Commons (see FOREIGN NEWS). Going into the chamber, the President had said: "I hope to do in one hour what Winston...
...semi-primitive work of Francis Guy and the smoother canvases of 163 other 19th-Century landscape painters are currently filling nine large galleries at Chicago's Art Institute. The show goes to show that U.S. landscape painting got off to a slow, painful start. Painter Guy was a determined, self-taught man, who began by tracing his first landscapes on a piece of gauze stretched across the window frame of a tent. But potential art buyers of his time were bored by landscapes: they liked only two kinds of art: portraits and historical paintings. Guy died several years before...
...backyard. The pact ended in 1934 (although the A.P. still trades its U.S. news for Reuters' foreign coverage). In the ten years since then, Reuters has acquired only 32 U.S. clients, got only as far inland as Chicago. One handicap: the wide suspicion that Reuters is a semi-official propaganda arm of the British Government. To combat this impression, Reuters took ads in U.S. trade papers to prove that it is a cooperative like the A.P., owned by British newspapers...
Lowell edged out NROTC Companies F-G, 26 to 25, yesterday afternoon in a tense semi-final intramural basketball game. With F-G thus eliminated from the struggle for top league rank, the Lowell-Company C tilt scheduled for Thursday will decide the outcome of the first intramural series...
Died. Romain Rolland, 78, impassioned French novelist and musician, 1915 Nobel Prizewinner for his great ten-volume, semi-autobiographical Jean-Christophe; in Vézelay, France. Long a pacifist, he gave his Nobel Prize money to feed war victims in World War I, retired from France to 24 years "above the battle" in voluntary Swiss exile. Returning to France in 1938, he supported World...