Word: semis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their presence). They also had to continue eating the same regimen of frozen, canned and dehydrated foods that they had aboard Skylab. Though they were allowed to go home to their wives in the evenings, their children had to move away from home temporarily. The 18 days of semi-isolation were ordered by doctors to shield the astronauts from the effects of earthly germs; any chance infection could be confused with bodily changes caused by the prolonged weightlessness, and thus hinder the intensive effort to pinpoint the physical consequences of living in zero...
...rule turns over the reins to his deputy Angelo. But those who equate the Duke with the Christian God are surely in error--unless God is scheming, deceitful, mendacious, irresponsible, fallible, and not without a streak of cruelty. The role is a flawed attempt at the kind of semi-divine authority-figure that Shakespeare would eventually limn so wonderfully as Prospero in The Tempest...
Robert Penn Warren, the widely respected novelist and critic, received the only Doctor of Letters. Warren is perhaps best known for his 1947 work, All the King's Men, a semi-fictional book describing the Louisiana of Huey Long, a senator from that state...
...midst lies Kendall Square, 24 controversial acres of barren land in two plots known as the Triangle and Quadrangle. The Cambridge Redevelopment Authority (CRA), the city's semi-independent urban renewal agency, has plans for the site: offices, luxury apartments, and a motel would occupy the Triangle while the Quadrangle would be reserved for "job-intensive" uses...
...born in 1957 when the city took advantage of the Federal Housing Act of 1949 to create a semi-independent agency to govern urban renewal. The Housing Act's original intent was the lofty goal of a "decent, safe, and sanitary" housing for all Americans. The 1949 Council endorsed the Act, foreseeing the opportunity "for Cambridge to replace large parts of its substandard housing with modern planned neighborhoods...