Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vaughn Flannery, Maryland horse-breeder and ad-man-turned-painter - for his first one-man show, of nostalgic semi-abstractions, mainly based on horse-racing and theatrical subjects...
...general council of numerous Disciples. Lower divisions are subdivided into cells. Breeders, who hold key posts in Government service, work tirelessly for Afrikaner domination over the British. Through its secret members the Bond controls the Herenigde Nasionale Party (the official Parliamentary opposition) and the Ossewa Brandwag (a semi-Fascist civil militia...
...Limitless Frontiers." Now down to a circulation of some 50,000 (it once had 75,000), Scientific American has dropped its crusading, confines itself to semi-technical reporting of U.S. industrial research. But it is still enthusiastic about the future of U.S. invention. In the lead article for its anniversary issue, famed Inventor Charles F. Kettering* predicts "limitless frontiers" for U.S. science in the next 100 years...
Lashing "hypocrisy in amateur sports' the former head of the Harvard Athletic Association said that he disliked the term "semi-professional" and could not understand how the players of "amateur" sports could accept salaries...
Duke Ellington and his concert orchestra are scheduled to give a semi-classical program in Symphony Hall tomorrow night at 8:30 o'clock. The Duke, under the sponsorship of Spencer Fuller, will appear only once before leaving for a Carnegia Hall engagement. Though some of the Duke's former stars will not be on hand, his presence at the piano will be a notable occasion. Among his other claims to fame is the fact that he was the first popular musician ever to appear in Paine Hall, the University's music center...