Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barrett spent most of his time squiring Mile. Riabouchinska, while R. Bowden Broadwater '42, Pegasus, resplendent in the latest thing in tweeds--a semi-knee length imported effect with turned-back cuffs (yes, actually, my dear!)--greeted all the guests. The seductive Mlle. Baronova devoted most of her attention to an editor of the CRIMSON...
...would provide a much better type of job for students than those held by many students at present. In order that they may complete their education students are paid by the N.Y.A. for doing public or semi-public work. In other words, boys can find jobs as librarians, laboratory assistants, typists, workers in museums, assistants to professors, etc., instead of having to take jobs waiting on tables in Boston hotels and night clubs, selling shoes, etc. The former type of job could work in nicely with a man's study program whereas the latter takes many hours a week...
...That political strings will be attached. But on the contrary, not the Government officials but the College officials administer the plan and select both the students and the jobs. The N.Y.A. provides the funds, stipulating only that the work done shall be of a useful and semi-public nature (i.e. not working for some private business corporation) and that the jobs done shall not result in the discharge of anyone at present employed...
Stating that he had been consulted on fields ranging from teaching to movie production, John L. Steele, Student Councilor in charge of Vocational Information at Phillips Brooks House, submitted a semi-annual report at the Monthly P.B.H. Cabinet meeting last night...
...presented, in their mutual oppositions, with considerable psychological skill. It all converges, in the long run, on sex for each. Elyot, a scholar, a "raker of dust, a rattler of bones," winds up in bed with an art-gallery Jewess as hard & cold as chromium. Eden, a sultry semi-Marxist, follows an abortion with a hot, sterile series of affairs, finds what she needs in a calm carpenter who dies for Loyalist Spain. As for their red-haired mother, Mrs. Standish, Nature "had her tiresome, if inevitable...