Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yardling squad that has had but two weeks to whip into shape. But this handicap has been remedied by excellent attendance that has marked '46 workout sessions for the first two weeks of the year. The highlight of this session was the Freshman win over the Varsity in a semi-practice game...
...This may be wrong date. Either last nite was very long and full of bad dreams or I have been semi-delirious...
...Democracy) were concerned with his vision of its resurgence. His dream of the neo-medieval future included: a return of self-sufficient walled towns; a return of craftsmen's guilds; abolition of mass production; abolition of gunpowder, the printing press, the combustion engine; "return to the land"; a semi-monarchical political setup for the U.S., which would be ruled by a chief elected for life by the governors of the states...
...young man from Alabama, wears clothes like a fashion plate from Esquire. Mel likes to wisecrack, does it often in a pleasant, comfortable voice. Like Red Barber, Allen seldom gets ruffled. Before he turned broadcaster he was an all-round athlete at Alabama U. (nickname: "The Skyrocket") and a semi-pro ballplayer. He is one of the most versatile and accurate U.S. sportscasters. When he reads from a script, his voice has no particular accent, but when he ad libs it comes straight from Dixie. Probable yearly earnings: above...
...film opens with semi-travelogue shots of the serene little coral reef that is Midway, of the gulls, gonies and Marines that live there, passes on to the alarm from the lazing patrol planes at sea, watches the huge khaki Flying Fortresses trundle heavily off the runways, the men moving with the deceptive leisure of Americans-and then come the Japs...