Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sallie Bingham seems to be winning all kinds of prizes, including not only the Dana Reed Prize ("Winter Term") and the Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappa Prize ("The Riding Lesson"), but also the Advocate Prize. Unfortunately, her vision of "Luke" has been choked by the tedious semi-genteel mannerism of her situation. As a result, this new story has almost none of the lure of "Winter Term" or the intensity of "The Riding Lesson." Just why it was given a prize is hard to discern, since it is not Miss Bingham's best, nor the best in the Advocate...
...half mile, French Anderson failed to qualify for the finals although he ran his semi-final heat in 1:53.8. There were four heats, but only the top two men from each heat made the finals. Anderson's time would have won two of the heats, but he placed third in his own, where the fastest time...
...Upper Class), a petty intelligentsia of teachers, technicians, journalists, veterinary surgeons and welfare officers, characterized (in the words of one critic) by "their long-playing records and their ponytail-haired wives." Drab, insular and irritable, the "new men" suggest that, in the semi-Marxist Welfare State, it is the people who wither away...
...other semi-final round, Junta and Sears disposed of Jon Clark and Tom Freiburg of Yale, 6-4, 6-1. The final round match between Hicks-Hicks and Junta-Sears was unusual in that the Trinity College groundskeepers were able, in a half-hour, to set up an indoor court which met with the approval of both doubles teams...
Junta had no difficulty sweeping to the semi-finals without the loss of a set. In the semis, he defeated fifth seeded Pete Bostwick of Middlebury...