Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a few seasons of semi-pro baseball, Booth entered the ice cream business. In the 1947 he was named manager of a New Haven company...
...fluctuations in 1958 Beta Two ... seem to suggest ... semi-regular changes in the atmospheric density such as could be caused by variable solar radiation--for which one would expect to find occasional periodicities of the order of 27 days and possibly a correlation with geomagnetic activity...
Teams from the Debate Council and Cambridge University in England will debate this afternoon via trans-Atlantic cable. Arguing in a semi-humorous vein on "Resolved: That this house thanks God for the Atlantic," will be James Lorenz '60, John Ferren '59, and Gregory M. Harvey '59 for Harvard...
...players in the world, probably second only to the Khan's of Pakistan at present, and has always stopped Heckscher's ambitions in the past. But Sunday, playing with a recently improved backhand, Heckscher finally pulled out a victory. Salaun played deliberately to Heckscher's backhand side in their semi-final contest, and this strategy proved his undoing...
...sneers and jeers were caused by the worst scandal in the temple's 300-year history. Last June Photographer Mikio Tsuchiya got permission to record life in the temple, planned impressive exhibits in the U.S., where enthusiasm for Zen's ego-smashing techniques has become a semi-religious phenomenon (TIME, Feb. 4, 1957 et seg.). Tsuchiya expected to find the temple's 30 pate-shaven novices undergoing the most Spartan life imaginable, for Zen is the harshest branch of Buddhism, and Shofukuji itself has a reputation as one of Zen's most austere temples...