Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appears it could do, it would not be strictly against past University policy. In the five years following its inception in 1930, the Harvard Boxing team developed into the most powerful squad in the East, recording an undefeated season in 1935 with one tie against Yale. The victories included semi-professional Virginia and Penn as opponents. Only once in six matches could the boxers defeat Yale, however...
Possibly the greatest disappointment was the poor showing of hurdler Joel Cohen, who lost in the semi-final of the trials. He had been expected to place in the finals...
Varsity coach Bill McCurdy was especially encouraged by the showing of his dash men, as all four Crimson entrants, Norm Bruck and Art Mayo of the varsity, and Yardlings Joel Landau and Nate Dodge, made the semi-finals. None reached the finals, however...
...horses out of her carriage to drag her in triumph to her lodgings. Yet she had the pathos of sincerity that lacked only the understanding of itself. In a sense, her stage appearance was a franker, more straightforward sensationalism than that practiced-among gossip columns, fan magazines and semi-public scandals-by Lola's Hollywood successors...
...stories are mentally furnished in something better than Farrell's caveman modern. Kilroy Was Here is an evocative, semi-autobiographical prowl among the littered streets and crumbling tenements of Farrell's boyhood on Chicago's South Side. Tart as melting aspirin on the tongue, it lives up to its tag line, "Kilroy was here but left because the place stank." A Baptism in Italy takes a tender look at a beat-up Italian writer-revolutionary who is punchdrunk from too many rounds in a concentration camp. He rouses himself to play gracious host to a sympathetic pair...