Word: semis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These concerts will continue nightly, except Sunday, throughout the summer, with Arthur Fiedler conducting the 85-piece symphony in varied programs of classical and semi-classical music. The only price of admission is the subway fare from Harvard Square to Charles...
...Publisher Graham does not expect to change the Post much. The way to have a good editorial page, he feels, is to have men writing it who know how to write. Of his own plans, Graham grins, says, "They are only the plans which any semi-intelligent man would have for a paper...
Nobody conked the ambassador. Furthermore, Detroit admitted that his wife was handsome. She wore a semi-transparent summer dress at the Ford plant and her slip kept climbing up underneath it. Everybody admired her legs. Said one observer in a hoarse aside: "Don't tell me that's peasant stock." High point of the visit was a banquet staged by the Detroit Committee of Russian Relief, Inc. It was held in the cream and red ballroom of the Book-Cadillac Hotel. It was a real party-bald heads gleamed like large opals and many of the female capitalists...
Then Sun Fo sent China's highly regarded Kuomintang economist, Ma Yinchu, the Generalissimo's old economics teacher (who was confined during the war for his criticism of the Central Government), on to Shanghai to continue the attack on "bureaucratic capitalism." Before such semi-official and private organs as the Chinese Institute of Banking Studies and the Chinese Institute of Agrarian Economics, Ma spoke of the concentration of capital in the Government and the use of public funds for private speculation in commodities and gold-a practice that makes the scandalous a routine matter in China today. Shanghai...
...sonic beam, and the gunners had to rely, as of old, on their knowledge of whale psychology. Radar was useless for spotting surfaced whales, which gave very poor "pips" on its scope. Even at locating antarctic ice it was none too useful in the hands of the whalers' semi-trained operator...