Word: semis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Masses & Mainstream, reincarnating the late New Masses (TIME, Jan. 12) and the Communist literary quarterly Mainstream, was blue-serge Marxist in semi-slick dress. Its first monthly issue (15,000 copies) was adorned with a Picasso cover...
...volunteers were prepared for semi-starvation by three months' good eating with a daily average of 3,492*calories. Then for six months they were fed two carefully rationed meals a day totaling 1,570 calories. Sample meals: pancakes, syrup, applesauce, cornbread and jam in the morning; potato soup, stew and potatoes in the evening...
After six months of hunger, the remaining 32 needed six months to return to normal. During the first three months of rehabilitation their bad table manners and bad study habits showed little improvement; some men actually became more depressed and irritable than during semi-starvation. As the effects of starvation wore off, each man lost his sense of close identity with his group and began worrying about his own personal plans for a normal future...
Another client, a Radcliffe student of dubious mental powers, entered complaint against several national magazines for using her picture on their covers without her permission. As evidence, the near-sighted girl displayed photographs of Lana Turner and Jean Tierney in poses of semi nudity. The law students were hard pressed for authoritative legal precedence in the case, but again succeeded in satisfying the plaintive without resorting to court procedure...
...Though the industry had declared that the boost would not affect finished steel, Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp. had already found it necessary to boost the price of one finished product (carbon steel strip) by $10 a ton. "It would appear likely," observed the Justice Department, "that other purchasers of semi-finished steel products will find it necessary to do [the same], namely, to pass on these increases to the consumers...