Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Loses Semi-Finale...
Norman Bruck, freshman sprinter, got off to a bad start in his semi-final heat in the 50 yard dash, losing to Arthur Bragg of Morgan State, who went on to win the event. Bruck won his qualifying heat in 5.6, two tenths of a second off Bragg's time and the meet record...
...Year." Born in South Amboy, N.J., the O'Briens decided to go to Seattle in the summer of 1949, when they met Coach Al Brightman, who doubles as Seattle's baseball coach. Scouting a semi-pro baseball tournament in Wichita, Kans., Brightman was taken with hard-hitting Shortstop Johnny (last year's average: .433) and Outfielder Ed (.431) of the South Amboy team.* When Brightman heard that the twins were also good basketball players, he made them a scholarship offer (free tuition and $75 a month for living expenses...
...modernist Composer Ernest Bloch is resigned to the fact that he is quite an old man. He lives in semi-retirement at Agate Beach, Ore., gathering and polishing beach stones, gardening and caring for his mushrooms. He still composes regularly, but has unwrapped no major scores since his Concerto Symphonique three years ago. "I am no giant of a man like [78-year-old] Winston Churchill," he says...
...before it quit, the CRIMSON set up a Graduate Board to keep a watchful eye on its temporary successor, the Harvard Service News. The substitute was a four-column, semi-weekly, semi-literate sheet that was not allowed to express editorial opinion. Although it was circulated free to military personal, civilians free on the campus wouldn't take the Service News...