Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...start early. When he was three, his father used to toss a ball with his son in the backyard at Marion, N.C. Since then, Billy Joe has pitched two no-hitters, won 20 straight for Oak Ridge (N.C.) Military Institute, averaging 18 strike-outs a game. His semi-pro record: 15-5. Cleveland plans to keep its expensive, draftable youngster for a ten-day tryout, then ship him to the San Diego farm club...
...Harvard athletics," the semi-official Bulletin notes, "are not to be dependent upon football gate receipts or the profits of any sport . . . The new director of athletics will not be responsible for 'balancing the budget' . . . Obviously, however, there is a limit to what Harvard can afford in this direction, but within reasonable bounds the director of athletics has as his duty the building of a good program...
...Then one day Mr. Pasternak said to me: 'Jose, you don't have to do this if you don't want to, but what about a number with Judy Garland-semi-popular?' I thought I would be a good fellow so I said O.K.-on one condition-that it should be a really hot number, at the top of its own class. You know the result. I played boogie-woogie, and I enjoyed it!" (The movie: Thousands Cheer, with Gene Kelly, Kathryn Grayson, Judy Garland and a clutch of other stars...
Both sophomores injured in an automobile accident earlier this month are reported progressing slowly. Philip M. Cronin is very weak, but can sit up in bed and read without much difficulty. Richard B. Kline is still in a semi-conscious condition and may be operated on in the near future...
...large part of Harvard education has become diseased. Over two thousand non-honors men in the five large departments of the College--History, Government, Economics, English, and Social Relations--see no more of any faculty member than the semi-annual study card signing. Many are not well enough acquainted with even one professor to ask for a character reference. "There is probably less personal contact between faculty and students than ever before," said the Committee on Educational Policy in its "Bender Report" last fall...