Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Semi-finals in the inter-House competition will be fought off today and tomorrow, with the eight finals scheduled for Friday evening at the I.A.B. Many of the same lads will battle for all-Harvard crowns Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, winding up the fistic series on Friday evening, March...
...industrial wages), acted as if it were ashamed of what it was doing. There was no public announcement of the price advance. Some of the increases were accomplished by a sleight-of-hand change on the price tag. U.S. Steel's Carnegie-Illinois subsidiary merely told customers that semi-finished steel, which had previously sold at $55 a gross ton (2,240 lbs.), would now cost $54 a net ton (2,000 lbs.). Other major steel producers, as they usually do, followed Big Steel's example. Prices went up on about 11 % of total steel production...
...played the piano, in his father's small movie house. He also had a paper route and he played cornet in the Methodist Church orchestra. To pay his way through Rose Polytechnic Institute (in Terre Haute), he shoveled iron ore, laid track for a railroad, and later played semi-pro baseball Sundays and nights...
...Webbs' best works was the English Poor Law History. Gradually, the semi-Marxist influence of the Webbs might make Britain the most efficiently, equitably, and humanely operated poorhouse the world had ever seen. But there was always the possibility that it would turn back from socialism. As Engels put it despairingly: "The English have all the material conditions necessary for . . . revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization...
...Merritt and his faculty to suggestions might lead them to a further examination of their department's course offerings, for theory is not the only area in which non-concentrators are at a disadvantage. Only Music 1 and one other course are available every year for any but semi-professional musicians-i.e., those who have not had any theory and do not play an instrument. The other non-concentrators' course varies from "The Symphony" to "Chamber Music from Haydn to Brahms," but only one is offered each year...