Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...astronomer, visiting lecturer from the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, spoke at the third in the Observatory's semi-annual series of open nights...
...York made a strong bid for group honors in the National A.A.U. boxing championships by placing five men in the semi-finals. Seattle placed four, while Cleveland and Philadelphia teams had three each...
...season's record, defeated Big Ten champ Bill Buckingham of Michigan State and Frank Altman of Iowa Teachers in the preliminaries. He beat Al Lopez of Illinois in the quarter-finals and Al Vega of Purdue in the semi-finals...
...religion, if he attempts to be definite, if he admonishes and exhorts, if he really loves God and his neighbor fearlessly, he will be despised and rejected . . . Scandals will be spread about him and the witchlike malice of the self-righteous will fall on him. The pride of the semi-educated . . . will flourish in village sloth. 'Many country people think there is something in all this religion,' as [Anglican Layman] Samuel Gurney says, 'and they aren't going to have anything to do with...
After years of running a flying school at San Antonio and starting a semi-scheduled airline, he landed an airmail route between Brownsville, Amarillo and Houston, sold out in 1937 to Braniff. When World War II began, Long organized four Texas flying schools at the request of the armed forces ("We pitched the textbooks out the window and taught with planes and parts"), turned out 20,000 pilots and 3,500 mechanics. In 1945 he got a CAB certificate, and began flying passengers between Amarillo and Houston. Later, he bought six surplus DC-3s, began using the name Pioneer...