Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listeners had special reasons for speaking up. Unlike Americans, who get their radio programs free, over nine million British radio owners pay ten shillings apiece yearly for the privilege of listening to their only broadcasting system. For their money they get the product of a semi-government monopoly which England's pinko New Statesman & Nation terms "the usual British compromise between incompatibles." Constitutionally attached to the office of the Minister of Information-by a clause so elastic that the Minister can always disclaim control of BBC-BBC is theoretically not controlled by the Government. It is theoretically...
...Manhattan (where Tutt learned that law is not justice, is a luxury the poor cannot afford); and in the U.S. at large. There is Tammany Boss Croker, who, says Tutt, was no worse than Republican Boss Tom Platt. There is Mark Sullivan, who (in Bull Moose days) was a "semi-Socialist." When the Lusitania was sunk, only Tutt and Frederic R. Coudert Jr.* (at a meeting of 18 prominent attorneys) thought the U.S. should get into World War I. When Tutt asked Calvin Coolidge (whom he had known as a boy in Vermont) what it felt like to be President...
...other semi-final that brought back to the championships their oldtime excitement and flavor...
...government soon turned into a semi-dictatorship. The King was a puppet of politicians and generals. He preferred to spend his time in driving locomotives, collecting wild flowers, netting butterflies...
Hunker, who stamped himself as the man to beat when he vanquished Jack Benn, favorite at the start, lost the first set of his semi-final match before rallying to beat F.M. Shore, 4-6, 6-2, 6-1. Hunker is an officer in the Naval Supply Corps School here, and came into the semi-finals after a three-set match with John Zinsser...