Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Norma Jeane was twelve days old, she was put to board (for $25 a month) with a family of religious zealots who lived in a sort of "semirural semi-slum" on the outskirts of Los Angeles. She was a normal baby, bright and happy, but when she was about two years old she suffered a severe shock, which she insists she can remember. A demented neighbor made a deliberate attempt to smother her with a pillow, and almost succeeded before she was dragged away...
...weatherman holds some good weather over the weekend, the tournament committee, headed by Crimson coach Jack Barnaby, hopes that two rounds of singles will be played each day, the finals and semi-finals coming on Sunday. One round of doubles is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, with the semis and finals finishing Sunday...
...Engineering Sciences there are three appointees, Richard S. Davis, metallurgy; William Paul, semi-conductor physics; and Werner Strumm, sanitary engineering...
...attack broke up numerous Jumbo clears, and the ball was consequently in enemy territory for three-fourths of the game. The starting midfield, Mac Hyde, Gale, and Tom Draper also looked good, and may provide the answer to a strong Yale squad Saturday in the season's semi-finale...
...Berlin there is no spot better suited to the Hitchcock scheme of things than a rustic, semi-deserted corner known on the U.S. side as Rudow and in the Russian zone, just over the way, as Alt-Glienicke. Self-important ducks and chickens strut like commissars in Alt-Glienicke's cobbled streets. Berlin's only working windmill turns lazily in the breeze near by, and close to the boundary separating East and West stands a U.S. radar station, bending its reticular ear to the operations at East Berlin's busy Schönefeld Airport. Two rings...