Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...support, he was able to buck the powerful Argentine Film Producers' Association, even though its top men were her brother Juan Duarte, the President's private secretary, and Raul Apold, Peron's propaganda chief. Del Carril produced, directed and starred in two big hits, one a semi-documentary that won honorable mention at the Venice film fes tival and was probably the best movie ever made in Argentina...
More important in this case than the transistor's small size is its saving on electric current. It has no hot filament, and so needs no filament-heating A-battery. It is also much easier on expensive, high-voltage B-batteries. According to Sonotone, the semi-transistorized instrument gets twice the normal service out of an A-battery and makes a standard B-battery last six months instead of the usual three or four weeks...
...nation-wide leadership training program for college students, and extension of anti-communist activities will be major topics of discussion at this month's semi-annual meetings of the National Student Association executive committee...
...human beings. Before this, he seems to have had no particular interest in the subject. But once he got started, it was the gall wasp all over again. When he began his research, some of his scientific colleagues (and their wives) cut him dead, and the period of semi-ostracism left him somewhat touchy and thin-skinned...
...Crimson ahead 61 to 58, but Murgo tied it up, sinking a foul shot to complete a three point play. With less than two minutes left, Krinsky put Harvard ahead for good, with a foul shot, while Dennis added three more free throws and put on a semi-freeze...