Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's Board on Mobilization Policy, which kept an eye on Mobilizer Charles Wilson and was privy to his plans and secrets. The A.F.L.-C.I.O. United Labor Policy Committee walked out on the first Wage Stabilization Board, and stayed out until the board was revamped to make it semi-independent of Wilson. The new WSB had a "balanced" membership of six industry members, six labor members, and six "public" members-the last mostly professional labor arbiters and professors who were acceptable to labor...
Almost nothing is known of Bosch's life except that he was a member of a semi-monastic lay community. Critic Fränger, basing his judgment on clues found in the paintings, thinks Bosch was also secretly an Adamite, a member of a sect called "Brethren of the Free Spirit," which found many underground recruits in the late Middle Ages. The Adamites reacted strongly against the church view on unbounded fleshly pleasures. They believed that perfection could be achieved not by ascetic prayer, but by a return to the perfect love of natural man, as typified by Adam...
Experts believe that these semi-automatic interceptors are an interim type. The final step will take the Air Force to completely automatic models. They will take off by themselves and follow radio guidance to the target area. Their own radars will pick up the target, fire the rockets or air-to-air homing missiles. Then they will return to base, steered and landed by human coaches on the ground...
Sensational Debut. Son of a Pottstown (Pa.) semi-pro player, Southpaw Shantz was first noticed, at 19, in Philadelphia's semi-pro Quaker City League, where he was a 9-1 pitcher and batted .485, playing center field in his off-pitching days. That was in 1944. He spent the next two seasons in the Army. Back in the Quaker City League in 1947, he improved his pitching (14-0), his batting (up to .497), and kept busy on weekends by pitching another team, Souderton, to the Eastern Penn League championship with eight more victories...
...Twitchell qualified for the semi-finals in the 200 hurdles by finishing third in his best. The winning time for the heat was 22 seconds flat. Pole-vaulter Bob Mello will go into the finals of his event today, although he has yet to complete...