Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Three. To finance industrial reconcentration, many West German banks have gone down the reconcentration path themselves. Last September the last of the Big Three commercial banks, the Commerzbank, linked its semi-independent units into one big house; Deutsche and Dresdner banks, the other members of the Big Three, did the same two years...
After the deluge, the varsity fought back gamely but futilely, for the height, speed, and finesse of the visitors were clearly too much for the Crimson. At 14:-45, the varsity pulled within eight points on a Donohue push shot, but Dartmouth went into a semi-freeze, working the ball around the outside until someone got clear for a lay-up shot. In the last five minutes, in fact, the Indians outscored the varsity, 15 to 5, despite a full-court press...
...Every boy in the state, from the time he's born, lives for the day he can play at the university." Once Rupp gets his players, he drills them endlessly and without letup. They live together in the same dormitory, eat a special diet. Practices are conducted in semi-silence, save for an occasional tongue-lashing directed by Rupp at a player who is not giving his all. "Boy," he will holler sarcastically, "give that ball to someone who knows what to do with it." To another: "Go back in the stands and read your press clippings...
Braving the wrath of a doting papa, heavyweight Wagnerian Diva Helen Traubel had some grim memories (in the Ladies' Home Journal) about her three years (1948-51) as teacher to semi-retired Soprano Margaret Truman. Not only was [Margaret's] voice "inexperienced and rather bad," said Traubel, but her own stature in the musical world went heavily down "for ever having my name connected with such a musical aspirant. My first, greatest and unconquerable difficulty with Margaret's voice was simply keeping her on key. There simply was not enough of everything-or of anything to make...
...scientific investigation." Some of Lemaitre's nonreligious disciples think otherwise. Cosmographer George Gamov of the University of Colorado believes that the primeval atom was not an ultimate beginning but "merely a state of maximum contraction of a universe that had previously existed for an eternity of time." A semi-mystical attitude is that not only space but also time itself began with the primeval atom; to ask what came before it is therefore pointless...