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Word: semi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just completing his first Senate term, Hunt seldom stole the limelight, but was respected for his painstaking work on the Armed Services Committee. A semi-pro baseball pitcher in his youth, he spent 22 years in politics (twice state governor), and was the Senate's only dentist. Wyoming's Governor C. J. Rogers, a Republican, said he expected to name Hunt's successor soon to serve until next January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Suicide in the Senate | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...clear," Molotov fumed, "that the 16 had a clear-cut goal-to support and prolong the anti-nationalist, rotten, semi-fascist Syngman Rhee regime." If Communist lamentations are a sign of success, then the Korean breakoff was a success for the West. In the far-off town of Chinhae, South Korea, where he was attending an anti-Communist conference ("Asia for the free Asians"), old Syngman Rhee tilted his intricately sculptured face away from the sun, and smiled at the news from Geneva. "I do not wish," he said to newsmen, "to appear as saying I told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Solid 16 | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

Sometime London medical student who wrote his experiences into his semi -autobiographical novel Of Human Bondage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: WHY BE A DOCTOR | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

Assorted skits and entertainment will be presented, based on the general theme: "Thirtieth Reunion, 1984." Big Brother may or may not attend. A semi-formal dance in and around Mors Hall will conclude the evening's festivities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Banner Presentation, Dancing to Highlight Radcliffe Class Night | 6/15/1954 | See Source »

...Bull's-Eye. A new, low-recoil, semi-automatic shotgun that stays on target at rapid fire without riding up was put on sale by New Haven's Winchester Repeating Arms Co. Secret of the shotgun's accuracy is a recoil chamber that moves less than one-tenth of an inch, thereby softening the kick up to 30%. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jun. 14, 1954 | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

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