Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bart Harvey, unheralded Sophomore dark horse, yesterday stole the show in the University tennis tournament by battling his way into the semi-final round, beating his classmate Jim Jenkins, 6-3, 4-6, 11-11, 6-4. The tie in the third set early in the week necessitated the final stanza being played yesterday...
Norm Dalrymple, seeded three, also entered the semi-finals yesterday by virtue of a straight-set drubbing administered to Al Sulloway, 6-3, 6-1. Dalrymple will put in his bid for the finals in a match scheduled for today with topseeded Al Everts...
...Cornell are playing a different sort of football from ours. They are going after their wins Yawkey style. One year out of five we may be able to equal their squads, guard for guard and back for back, but in the other four years any contest with the semi-pros will result in a one-sided and futile struggle...
...help us if Harvard ever assembled a nice, honest semi-pro football team like Boston College. The grateful New England scribes would probably nick-name the backfield "the scrambled eggs" in honor of Dick Harlow. The newest angle to be played up for a local consumption is the likening of Coach Frank Leahy of Boston College to the immortal Knute Rockne (Leahy's team accomplished the stupendous feat of beating Tulane, which has yet to win its first game this year). Dave Egan was only groping around in the dark last spring, letting loose an occasional blast at Harvard...
...even charier than usual of taking a firm stand until it knew what the reaction was. But in Tokyo, where the Government not only informs but makes public opinion, there were many signs that Japan intended to force the U. S. to take its stand. Every official and semi-official spokesman who opened his mouth-and the Japanese talked plenty last week-let it be known that Japan considers the Fascist Alliance a challenge...