Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dozen puttee'd policemen leaped on their machines and raced ahead to clear the way. The bass drum thumped into the smoky air and crowds of civilian marchers fell in behind. The firemen followed, in step, bearing posters that read VOTE YES ON 4. A red-white-and-blue semi-trailer truck rumbled into the square snorting diesel smoke and music, staffed by ten young men who threw down handfuls of Kennedy-Furcolo buttons and armloads of paper streamers. Just ahead of it walked a man inside a great box sign, inexplicably made up in a long beard...
...University is ferreting out illegal toxic gas and open unit refrigerators as part of its semi-yearly inspection of all student rooms...
Preliminary plans for the new College Theatre, drawn by the firm of Hugh Stubbins and Associates, allow for an auditorium which can be used with a regular stage or as a semi-arena. "This plan achieves our aim of flexibility," Harry T. Levin '33, member of the Faculty Committee on the Theatre commented--and keeps within a cost limit of $1.5 million, reportedly set by the Corporation...
...mention of governmental health insurance usually evokes loud charges of socialized medicine and many of the other cliches which make discussion of American economics into semi-religious issues. Yet Nelson Rockefeller--not very renowned for his socialistic ideas--advocated in a recent campaign speech that New York extend its workmen's compensation laws to include financial protection against catastrophic medical expenses. Harry Truman, some years ago, also suggested a national health insurance scheme. Such an extension of public welfare activity would be both beneficial and practical...
Printed in magazine form, the publications will have a semi-glossy cover and mimeographed pages. Financed by a $12 grant from the Freshman Union Committee and advertising receipts, the newspaper was organized with the help of Yearbook Publications. About 30 Freshmen are on the staff...