Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston Pops Concerts, which, under Mr. Fiedler's lively baton, carries on nightly with overtures, semi-classical favorites, and light tone-poems. The audience listens lightly and lolls around tables guzzling beers. Tonight Mr. Fiedler's gentleman present their standard gourmand's fare. Music like Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," interesting harmonically but otherwise dull, the Brahms Fifth Hungarian Dance, and the unbreakable Blue Danube Waltz, are there for those who can still bear them. Of greater relish is the delightful fantasy "Fugue and Variations on Under the Spreading Chestnut-Tree" by Weinberger, one of the sensations of the past...
...materials and semi-manufactures fared better, although among them, too, the biggest export gains were made by the groups needing foreign relief least. Far & away the No. 1 material exporter was the scrap, pig iron and other semi-finished steel groups, whose shipments were up 145% to $78,494,000. Other star performers - copper, up 122% to $33,264,000; chemicals, up 145% to $21,257,000; aluminum materials, up 184% to $5,836,000 - were all in fair shape domestically anyway. Disappointing was the increase in coal exports (up 35% to $10,725,000); the big Canadian and Latin...
Harvard's tennis team dominated the field yesterday in the New England Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament at Providence. Jack Stewart and Johnny Palfrey have dropped by the wayside, but Captain Dave Burt and ex-Captain Langdon Gilkey are slated to oppose each other in the top bracket of the singles semi-finals today. In the doubles tournament Harvard has been even more successful, with both the Burt-Gilkey and Palfrey-Stewart combinations winning their way into the semi-finals...
...counting a host of semi-legendary saints, such as St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins who were martyred most balefully by the Huns at Cologne...
Believing that it had a movie of "special interest to the college student," Twentieth Century Fox staged a special snap preview of "Johnny Apollo" some seven weeks ago in Ossining, New York. They picked Ossining because the hero, to say nothing of most of the semi-minor characters, resides during the last forty-five minutes of the movie in a certain notorious neo-Gothic villa of that town. They invited the reviewers of thirty college newspapers to serve as an audience because the same hero spends the first three minutes in college and thereby creates what Mr. Zanuck-presumably calls...