Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Ray, a sophomore, gained second place in the 145-pound class, scoring falls in the quarter-finals and semi-finals of the tourney. Dave Shapiro, former varsity wrestler and first-year Business School student, took first honors in the 135-pound group by pinning his opponents in the first period of the quarter-finals, semi-finals, and finals...
...simultaneous middle-of-the-night raids, rounded up leaders of the Communist "Study Group," which had been spreading Red propaganda in Hong Kong's movie studios, charged them with "political activities subversive to peace and order" and chucked them out of the colony. The Far Eastern Economic Review, semi-official organ of Hong Kong's financiers, editorially reflected the new boldness: "Formosa must remain [a citadel] until Peking can be made . . . less aggressive . . ." said the Review. "Chiang Kai-shek's prestige is recovering. He is now looked upon as an ally of considerable value...
MUSIC IS another sideline. He plays the organ recognizably, but it's primarily a listening interest. Once he gave CBS Board Chairman William Paley an idea for gingering up a radio show, and as a reward gets all of Columbia's classical and semi-classical record releases. On other occasions, too, he has displayed unsuspected talents. When CBS was stuck for a commentator in its early telecasts of racing, Vanderbilt handled the first few shows capably. "I got a good notice from Crosby," he says. And during an early acquaintance with Ernest Hemingway, he became adept at handling...
...anti-Carlsen group also made its debut, immediately followed by a "semi-Carlsen" club. Yesterday, freshmen could even sign membership lists for a "Back to the Pole with Peary" movement and sign petitions requesting that Scollay Square be renamed Flying Enterprise Square...
...stay with Harrison Dillard, Meredith Gourdise, or Dartmouth's Pete McCreary, however. Collins was able to keep up with the dash field until the final ten yanis. He eventually finished a good fifth. Bob Rittenberg made the hurdle semifinals and both Twitchell and Bill Geick got into the semi-finals of the dash...