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Word: semi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the return to semi-gracious living is still in the nebulous stage, Yale officials say that it is possible that it might go into effect next fall. The chairman of the Dining Halls Service committee declared this "a real step forward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elis Consider Use of China; Dining Room May Quit Trays | 3/27/1952 | See Source »

...like something in a child's drawing book, where the picture is already printed and only the coloring is the child's own. Down here, up here, in that corner, with this detail, Odets' coloring has fine individuality. It is not his key figures but his semi-grotesques, not Joe but some of Joe's trainers and relatives, who seem most alive. It is not where Odets tries to be poetic but where, in hurried scribbles and scrawls, he forgets to try, that he brings a kind of impassioned feeling to life itself. His violin music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Mar. 24, 1952 | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

Decision Before Dawn. A spy drama, semi-documentary in flavor, set against the spiritual and physical chaos of Germany on the eve of defeat in World War II (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Mar. 24, 1952 | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

Lionel Nowak's Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Cello provided the evening's novelty. Nowak, who also teaches at Bennington, uses a lively semi-atonal style that is immediately appealing without being banal. The unique combination of instruments creates unusual timbre effects, and the performance (except for some excessive violin scraping) did the work full justice...

Author: By Lawrence R. Casler, | Title: Bennington Ensemble | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

Ufford trimmed former Princeton Star Hugh Scott, 3 to 0, and Bacon edged Captain-elect Dave Watts, 3 to 2, in semi-final matches last week. The tourney, which started early in January, had a total of 116 entrants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Tourney Final Match Sets Ufford Against Bacon | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

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