Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three years ago, Benny Goodman gave his dark-haired, blue-eyed trumpeter a friendly shove toward bandleadership. A semi-failure at first, Bandleader James began tasting success only when he laid away his ambitions as a "hot" man, and developed a simple sweet style that features the clear, cool James trumpet against a mass of soft strings (he added five strings to his band to give it the un-swing-like total of eight). Imperturbably, James alternated blues and boogie-woogie with Viennese waltzes and technical specialties out of his own trumpet. But it was his revival of Al Jolson...
...requests became clearer, she organized regular services to take care of the most frequent ones. For example, she now gets up a discussion outline every fortnight in collaboration with America's No. 1 expert in current events discussion, Professor Lyman Bryson of Columbia. She supplies monthly and semi-annual news quizzes, special enlargements of TIME maps for platform use and several other services tailored to club needs. In some of our most active clubs she gives a prize each year to the winner of the Current Affairs Contest...
...depends on Henry, Norman does his best to be a businesslike copy of Ezra. House Jameson, who plays Father Aldrich, coaches the new Henry out from behind every eight ball. It is worth it. For in Norman The Aldrich Family has a safely deferred Henry (he supports elderly and semi-invalid parents...
...Training Corps of America, semi-official godfather to the training program, estimated that 500,000 high-school students will be enrolled in its preflight training units this fall...
...quiet lad, Pete boasts of only one thing: in seven years of fast semi-pro baseball, he has never hit under .300 for a season. He confidently expects to play in the major leagues some...