Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...semi-Crimson semi-rugby team will seek its first win of the fall against the Town Club of Mount Royal in Montreal this afternoon...
...That Again? SIR: PUBLISHER LEO HIRSCHFIELD OF ATHLETIC PUBLICATIONS [OCT. l] HAS ME QUASI-CONFUSED. WHEN HE SAYS "SEMI-OCCASIONALLY," DOES HE MEAN RATHER DEMI-SELDOM OR PRETTY DEMI-OFTEN...
...horsepower; when Breech went to fast-slipping Ford the next year, along went Crusoe. Accounting Expert Crusoe supervised the day-today unraveling of the tangled finances left by old Henry, after that took on the job of divisionalizing Ford so that it could compete with G.M.'s semi-autonomous units. Crusoe's current chore is to match G.M. car for car, price line for price line...
Miss Radcliffe of '57 was chosen from 7 finalists after two hours of closely-closeted conferences between Myra Hansen, Miss United States, and seven editors. Commenting on Radcliffe semi-finalists, Miss Hansen stated "I've never seen so many beautiful college girls together at one time, and almost every one of them was wholesome." Henceforth a new requirement--"wholesomeness"--was added to the contest, previously based solely on "face and figure...
World Without Mirrors. The first reaction of Gabrielle to the life of a nun was shock-the electric buzzer shrilled at 4:30 a.m. Another shock was the lack of privacy; each of 200 cells was semi-partitioned with thin cotton hangings, contained only a chair, a table and a straw pallet on wooden planks. It was a world without mirrors. There was sign language at meals to preserve silence. Down-hooked middle and index fingers said, "Fork, please"; two humble taps on the breast said, "Excuse me." One of the strange episodes was the shearing of the lambs: "Postulants...