Word: semis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After distributing cigars, and "cigarettes for the effeminate", Mr. Kittredge sat and smoked, and listened with well-simulated interest while I, dripping with perspiration like a municipal sprinkler, read on and on, and while in the semi-darkness my fellow students heaved oc-occasional gusty sights of weariness; but one's reward came with a few benign words of approval which seemed an Olympian benedicton...
...past month has witnessed a persistent spread of price increases from raw materials to semi-manufactured and then to finished goods. These in turn are more and more being passed on from wholesale to retail markets, and are affecting the living costs of the entire consuming population as well as the operating costs of the farmers...
...fusion metal particularly for small complicated shapes like gears. They look just like ordinary metal to the naked eye; they can ultimately be made equally strong. But they have distinct advantages, chiefly 1) light weight, 2) porosity which enables them to absorb large quantities of oil, giving them semi-permanent built-in lubrication...
...Library Committee supervises the Textbook Loan Library and a social service library in P.B.H. and organizes the semi-annual old clothes drives. The Foreign Students Committee acts as host to the one hundred and fifty foreign students in the University, with headquarters in the International House...
...Biggest consumer is the paint & varnish industry. Best paint is made from relatively costly, drying linseed oil. Soybean oil is semi-drying, always leaves the paint film slightly sticky. But, mixed with linseed oil, soybean oil makes a cheaper paint good for many purposes. Chemists recently learned how to treat soybean oil so that it takes on the properties of another important but hard-to-get paint ingredient, Chinese tung...