Word: semis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make sudden and drastic changes to India's administration of 352,000,000 semi-civilized people, with over 45 races with 225 languages, many religions, and diametrically opposed ideas, was-and to many people's minds still is-an impossibility; and that if there ever were cause for "the inevitability of gradualness," here is one indeed...
...India would appoint a member to Winston Churchill's War Cabinet. At the end of the war, elections would be held for the provincial legislatures. The lower houses of these bodies would then sit as an electoral college to choose, by proportional representation, a constitutional congress. The 562 semi-autonomous Indian States would be invited into this congress with proportional representation. States or provinces which did not agree to the new constitution could agree on separate constitutions, which would be equally recognized by Britain. Thus the door was left open for a separate Moslem State, if India...
Died. Carolyn Wells, wholesale thriller manufacturer (81 mysteries in 33 years); of heart disease; in Manhattan. She had been writing juveniles and highly popular nonsense verse for some ten years before she turned her hand to detective fiction in 1909. A semi-invalid, she was once given only two years to live, prepared herself for the end by ordering a chiffon gown and cocktail jacket as her deathbed costume, then lived ten years and wrote more than 25 more books...
...desk stood a vase of green carnations, a pot of shamrock. He was pleased at having a big cat to let out of the bag-General MacArthur's new command in Australia; and he had something else up his sleeve. He had found one of those sly, semi-scholarly parallels on which he loves to impale his more annoying critics, like marshmallows on a toasting fork. In 168 B.C. the Consul Lucius Aemilius Paulus, about to lead the Romans to victory over the Macedonians, had made a speech to his people. For years the speech had hung...
Japs to the West? Western Australia is a semi-desert land of vast sheep and cattle ranges, a few tiny seaports like Broome and Wyndham (where Jap planes have also attacked). For the present the Japs can probably win bridgeheads at such places if they want to take the trouble. Based there, they would still be 1,450 miles from the one worthwhile western objective, the southwestern port of Perth, and its surrounding farm, cattle and mineral lands...