Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Semi-Annual Wage. In the Ford negotiations at the red-and-beige Silver Room of the Detroit-Leland Hotel, both sides talked-behind a pledge of secrecy -until almost a week before deadline. Then Reuther warned that G.M. had made an offer. Two days later, Ford's Vice President John Bugas presented a "partnership in prosperity" plan...
...Anti-Communism "after all is only a new aspect of resistance to foreign ferments which might threaten national unity. It is not so much a political barrier against Russian supremacy as rivalry between two economic systems, both of which have been built up on semi-religious convictions...
...biggest island in the Mediterranean were subjected to a fresh invasion. This one was noisy but peaceable, consisting of a stream of orating visitors from the Italian mainland. The attraction was not Sicily's resources or its harshly lovely geography, but its political loyalties. As a semi-autonomous region of the Italian Republic, Sicily was preparing to elect a new regional parliament...
Analyze Yourself first snorkeled in Britain about 20 years ago, looking like a jolly parlor game for rainy nights. "Adapted" for U.S. consumption by Editor Victor Rosen, the book still has an air of semi-solemn fun-with-Freud and what-every-Jung-man-should-know. Moreover, its prose is so plain that a roomful of safecrackers and their molls might well while away the hours before the gelignite goes up by browsing through the work. Its most startling feature is a questionnaire jig-sawed by Authors William Gerhardi (holder of the Czarist Order of St. Stanislav) and Prince Leopold...
Most of these concentrators, then, major in Music for semi-professional training and seek their liberal education through a wide range of outside courses, since only six are required for honors concentration. The typical attitude is expressed by a sophomore: "I am majoring in Music because I wanted a thorough training in the field. But because I also wanted a first rate liberal education in addition to my Music, I came here rather than to a conservatory...