Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chandler Street Junior High School in Worcester, Mass, is really a semi-campus-a series of units connected by glazed corridors. Special sections, however, can be cut off entirely and heated separately. Thus the school's library could easily become a branch public library, if the city should want to make...
...another monument to U.S. history: a statue to be placed in a memorial at Normandy's Omaha Beach, where some 9,300 U.S. soldiers, sailors and airmen are buried in a military cemetery. The plaster model showed a 22-ft. figure (to be cast in bronze) of a semi-nude youth with rippling loincloth, his head and arms flung up and out, apparently on the point of taking off heavenward...
Change in Plans. The Western powers could pretend no longer that the simmering problem of Trieste would simply blow away if no one looked. Trieste (pop. 270,000), once a commercial rival of Venice, was for centuries a semi-autonomous city, giving the landlocked Austro-Hungarian empire an outlet to the sea. The Allies promised it to Italy in World War I as a reward for joining their side. Italy held Trieste until World War II; ethnically, 80% of the city itself is Italian. Since World War II, the port city and 280 square miles of surrounding countryside, coveted...
...World and the West, by Arnold Toynbee. A provocative interpretation of the history of the past six centuries, capped with a venture in semi-prophecy (TIME, April...
...World and the West, by Arnold Toynbee. A provocative interpretation of the history of the past six centuries, capped with a venture in semi-prophecy (TIME, April...