Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Showman Arthur Fiedler led his group of symphony musicians in their old standby's--semi-classical arrangements heavy on strings and brasses. But for the returning Harvardmen, their wives, and children, G. Wright Briggs '31 was the sensation...
...first president after a hotly contested election, and Phillips Finlay and Dillon were elected to Vice-President and Secretary, respectively. Finlay also found success in other fields of endeavor as he was named freshman golf captain. In the 1928 U.S. Amateur, Finlay advanced as far as the semi-finals, where he was finally put out by Bobby Jones...
FUSION DATA, obtained from H-bomb development, will soon be released to private industry for peacetime use. Atomic Energy Commission has already given 36 companies permits to use semi-restricted fusion-energy data, is currently debating whether to lift all restrictions at once or let information trickle out slowly. Chances are that it will come out slowly...
Meeting on foreign ground (Vancouver, B.C.), officials of the Pacific Coast Conference wrathfully studied the semi-amateur sins of P.C.C. members and let fly with a spate of decisions that should surely qualify as a new world record in a neglected area of intercollegiate competition: the longterm, free-style chew-out. After dusting off its half-forgotten rule book for the recruiting of athletes, the P.C.C. read the riot act to every one of the nine schools in the conference except Washington State, and punctuated the unprecedented bawling-out with the heaviest fines on record. Items...
...artist who has survived this gauntlet and is now coming into his own is Princeton-educated William Kienbusch, 42, now showing at Manhattan's Kraushaar Galleries. The surest sign of his arrival: the fact that U.S. museums now own 18 of his colorful semi-abstract paintings of the Maine coast, seven of them purchased in the last year alone...