Word: semi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...whole thing began in 1940 after Stanley had quit Dartmouth, and started looking for something to do. With Father Floyd's help he picked up a twelve-year-old semi-dormant investment trust, changed the name to Great American Industries, bought an outfit called Virginia Rubatex Corp., which makes hard & soft cellular rubber for insulation, gaskets, seat cushions, pontoons, etc. The rubber business flourished but young Odium wanted more diversification, found it in venerable Ward La France Truck Corp., one of the biggest U.S. makers of fire engines and custom-built, heavy-duty trucks. With these...
...troops moved toward Buna, Kenney had to find new strips for his supply planes. He found them by sending light planes to drag the coast for level ground. Sometimes it was pocked with palms, sometimes wing-deep in grass. The first pilot to land would squirm to a semi-crash landing. When the ear-ringed natives gathered round, he spread his wares-cowrie shells and tobacco sticks-and bargained to have trees and grass sliced down. The natives, men & women, usually set to work with a will...
...full year the "Net-Workshop", using the Network's cramped quarters, did its best to turn out a play a week. Some of the efforts met with student approval. For example: Fleming's commentary on undergraduate life last winter, "The Leaning Tower of Ivory"; the organization's only semi-experimental shows -- Louis Eno's and John Lawlor's "radio music dramas"; a couple of plays by Milton Van Dyke...
...organized in 1936 as the Anti-Communist Center by Nazi Agent Oscar Hellmuth Schreiter, and from the outset trained semi-militarized shock troops under Spanish Falangists; >Maintained direct contact with the Fichte Bund in Hamburg until the outbreak...
...caliber, semi-automatic carbine which is already in the hands of U.S. troops fighting in North Africa and the Pacific. A killer up to 500 yards, it is supplanting the pistols of company and platoon commanders...