Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Albert Coombs Barnes came out of his South Philadelphia corner fighting.* A poor boy, he worked his way through high school, paid his way through the University of Pennsylvania medical school by playing semi-pro baseball, helped pay for graduate work at the University of Heidelberg by singing in a German beer garden...
Actually, young Cocozza lived in a fairly pleasant working-class neighborhood, where his parents, Antonio and Maria Cocozza, had a six-room house and brought up their only child with pampering indulgence. The elder Cocozza, a decorated World War I combat veteran on a total disability pension, is a semi-invalid; his wife worked as a seamstress in the Army quartermaster depot. Freddy, as everyone called their son, was a spoiled, reckless kid: one of his teachers still remembers him with a shudder as "one of the biggest bums that ever came into the public-school system...
...industry's semi-annual reports, now flowing out, show the first boosts and shocks of rearmament. For the most part, earnings are good. Of 413 companies reporting through last week, 242 record higher earnings in the first half of 1951 than in the same period last year. But many a report also makes plain the stunning impact of higher taxes and price controls...
...interpretation (which he kept) and a Vandyke beard (which he shaved off after ten performances), Alec Guinness explained some of his ideas on staging in the Spectator: "The setting, a formal and rather bleak affair, I take full responsibility for. It was partly the result of reaction against permanent, semi-permanent and realistic sets in Shakespeare, and, above all, a stubborn dislike of the rostrum. Rostrums, apart from cluttering up the stage, tend to produce a one-foot-up, one-foot-down sort of acting which I find peculiarly dispiriting. I have very few conversations on the stairs...
Bureaumen believe that eventually 50 million more acres can be irrigated west of the Rockies, and that this would feed an additional 75 million people. Even after that, there is plenty more. East of the Rockies lie large areas of semi-arid land that could increase their production mightily. It would be quite a job to pump the Mississippi into Texas and Oklahoma, but the more enthusiastic bureaumen believe it could be done. ¼We and our contractors,¼ they say, ¼enjoy pushing rivers around...