Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sent to school, taught useful trades. This work was carried on after India became independent. Last week the state of Uttar Pradesh, following the example of Bombay and Madras, repealed the Criminal Tribes Act, thus freeing all but a small percentage of India's criminal tribesmen from their semi-prison existence...
Until two years ago, the Lehigh Art Alliance was a small group of amateurs and semi-professionals who periodically exhibited their work and attracted almost no attention. Then Alliance President Quentin Smith Jr. suggested that the members concentrate on a mass portrait of some regional industry. That year they settled on the Pennsylvania Power & Light Co. Their single-theme show, "Portrait of Power," was a hit with the community, and Penn Power bought up 25 canvases for a permanent exhibition. Last year, the alliance chose the Call-Chronicle newspapers of Allentown as their group subject, called the results "Portrait...
Lanza's new picture was to be The Student Prince. At his studio's urging, Tenor Lanza whittled down his overstuffed, 2201b. hulk to a romantic, semi-princely 178 Ibs. But on shooting day, Mario did not feel like working...
Various University satrapies, once semi-autonomous, have been gathered under his wing with the adoption of the Senior Tutor plan, such as the testing department, the Placement Office and of course the Houses, and though they still operate more or less independently, Dean Leighton is responsible for their working in harmony. Moreover, the Dean must see to it that the Houses and the Departments are not forever at each others' throats over the matter of Tutorial. "Essentially, he says, "my job is seeing that the sytem works...
Last week in its twelfth semi-annual report, the AEC gave the U.S. a few other dazzling glimpses of atomic energy plans. Items...