Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only apparent relationship between the two statements above is an entirely arbitrary one: they are connected by a semi-colon. In actuality, the only connection is equally arbitrary, but since it exists in the mind of the administration, it has the force of law for the college...
...past has united Harvard and the Monastery in a number of ways," stated Father Granville Williams, the Superior. He spoke seated in the Common Room, where all guests are greeted. The room, like most in the Monastery, is usually in semi-darkness and faces Memorial Drive and the Charles River...
...Annie Oakley thinks equally well of our fair city. Also present are the Riders of the Purple Sage who are still drifting along the tumbling tumbleweed searching for some cool, cool water. There is also a square dance on horseback, trick riding, and two girls doing trick roping in semi-Bikini type costumes. These interludes do not leave a great amount of time available for events, and since there are over a hundred contestants, there are a lot of actionless days for the cowboys...
...Harral, was looked up to in its time as a work of art and the acme of taste. It boasts a tower without, twin parlors within. Elaborate valances edged with silk ball fringe hung at the lancet bay windows, framing Chauncey Ives's most famous statue, his marble semi-nude Pandora. The dining-room walls are paneled in fine, carved walnut. The ceiling of the great hallway is a Gothic arch of wood ribs with gilded bosses representing the heads of such men as Shakespeare, Socrates and George Washington. The stairway, lighted with bronze statues holding a gaselier...
Explained the story beneath: "Dropped axle, 4-inch-long shackles, reversed spring eyes and a leaf removed from the spring group account for snooping attitude of front end. Spic-and-span engine room houses a semi-torrid flathead with lightened flywheel, two-pot manifold, headers and special distributor . . . The lakes pipes are up front."* Thus the editors of Hot Rod magazine instructed do-it-yourself fans in the delicate art of transforming a 1940 Ford coupe into an authentic, snoop-fronted, 130-m.p.h. "iron...