Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is plainly the worst bell in the area. The Memorial Church bell, strident though it may be, maintains decent hours on Sunday and contains itself until eleven o'clock. St. Paul's Church, directly across from Adams House, is regular enough to be absorbed easily into the semi-conscious, stuporous mind...
...with foreigners. But as a descendant of the Prophet Mohammed, the Sultan wields great influence among the world's 300 million Moslems. In his youth he was fond of fast automobiles and purebred Arab horses, seemed an ideal stooge. But in his late 205, Sidi Mohammed became a semi-invalid from an intestinal ailment, took to reading English constitutional history and books about the past glories of Morocco...
...prose regions of the Lampoon, it is again a recent graduate who has done the most creditable job. John P. C. Train '50, in a semi-Liebling-like analysis of Mexican newspapers, displays again the effortlessness and sophistication which make most of his stuff easy and delightful to read. There is a story by Oliver Allen '43, concerning a social climber's campaign to ease himself into the New York Harvard Club, which should appeal to members of that organization, if no one else. The rest of the prose works fall really flat, especially a drawn-out parody by Nathaniel...
...model room seats 110 persons. When class is in session, students sit behind carrying, continuous writing tables. All seats can be turned through a semi-circle...
...rather tough on my studies to bring my love affair to a denouement in the midst of the semi-annuals...