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Word: semi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trials will take place today, semi-finals tomorrow in the third-floor boxing room, and finals Thursday night in the Blockhouse gym. All refereeing will be done by officials approved by the state boxing commission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Quintet Bows; Dudley Wins; College Ring Tourney Starts Today | 3/8/1949 | See Source »

...During Business Hours." What Israel wanted most was the Negeb, and it got that. The Arabs, however, got a 20-mile strip of coast around Gaza, and Israel agreed to a semi-demilitarization (only small defensive forces, no airplanes) of the Israeli-Egyptian border. Egypt was allowed to withdraw from the famed Fa-luja pocket, and last week her half-starved troops, who had been marooned in the pocket for 20 weeks, began a joyful exodus, heads held high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Peace in a Smoke-Filled Room | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...last year's individuals Captain Adam Foster advanced as far as the semi-finals before being beaten. In that 1947 series, Adam, elder brother of Henry and Hugh, turned in one of the better performances of the tournament when be eliminated the defending champion, MeGill's Pete Landry, in the quarter finals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Stars Invade Princeton for Intercollegiate Championship Title | 3/4/1949 | See Source »

...Louis-Georges Teulery, 37, has admitted he delivered military secrets to a foreign power, police said. The foreign government was not named, but the semi-official French News Agency said it was "one of the popular democracies." Those are the words with which Communists describe countries they control...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Filibuster Begins in Senate; British Aid Will Not Be Cut | 3/1/1949 | See Source »

Harvard Debate Council teams placed second in the seeding round of the annual MIT Debate Tournament Friday, but were eliminated by Tufts is the semi-finals Saturday. The University of Vermont gained top honors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Dabate Council Loses in Tech Tournament | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

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