Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This victory brings Everts to the semi-finals of the tournament being held at the Longwood Cricket Club. His next match will be against Paul Gibbard Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Gibbard, who has been state champion in past years, was also a star skater and hockey player at Dartmouth...
...Skylark," this week's presentation at the Brattle Hall Theatre, is like a lot of other comedies. It starts off rather slowly and aimlessly, manages to become semi-amusing at the end of the first act, and from there on turns into a really funny show, as the actors and the script lose their awkwardness. It never becomes first-rate comedy, however, because it is never really convincing. The plot and the characters are too trite to make it anything more than a clever drawing-room farce in which the characters speak and act as they are expected...
...China through substitution of subsistence for cash crops by the rural population has bitterly disappointed the Japanese military. In Free China, however, agriculture has prospered. Crop yields have increased 30 per cent, and cooperative societies have sprung up with 8,000,000 members. Villages that used to consider the semi-monthly slaughter of a pig an event now slaughter them daily...
...labor, wrote into one of last week's resolutions the distorting phrase, "Nazis, Fascists, and Communists." In an attempt to stampede the conference, the Argentine Gendarmeria Nacional made the timely "discovery" of a 9,000-member "Communist" organization in the Chaco, where any labor-organizing of the exploited semi-serfs in the quebracho camps is promptly smeared as Communist. The delegates smiled politely, remained unimpressed...
...canoe bearing Cinestar Bette Davis and 12-year-old bitplayer Janis Wilson across California's Lake Arrowhead overturned, dumped them into deep water 40 yards from shore. Swimmer Davis succeeded in getting semi-swimmer Wilson to shore, gave her up to her mother, who spanked the daughter, kissed the actress. "I am an old Eagle Scout," explained Miss Davis...