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Word: semi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...semi-finals, Fisher edged Jim Harden of Dunster, 5 to 4. Kadin entered the finals by a 5 to 3 victory over Nat Geary of Eliot House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fisher, Thomas Take First Place In Intramural Feneing Tournament | 3/23/1955 | See Source »

Best Marks. Through the week TV's own writers, actors and producers earned their best marks in the documentary and semi-documentry line. In Background (NBC, Sundays, 5:30 E.S.T), Producer Ted Mills turned a sympathetic, revealing eye on Puerto Rico's dirt-poor barrio farmers, their homes and their lush hills, and their first efforts to develop better roads and schools through community cooperation. With notable restraint and suspense, CBS's Danger (Tues. 10 p.m. E.S.T.) re-enacted the story of Polish Skipper Jan Cwiklinski (played by George Voskovec), who escaped from his ship Batory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...semi-finals in the three-day tournament will be held at 3:15 p.m. today in the I.A.B...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers in Inter-House Tourney Enter Semi-Finals in I.A.B. Today | 3/16/1955 | See Source »

...publicity and duplicity in which the phonies have inherited the earth. Pronouncing a scarcely original, but nevertheless grandiose, anathema, he finds everyone corroded through the decline of love and the absence of Christian faith. Rangy in setting (New England, Greenwich Village, Paris, Spain, Italy, Central America), aswim in erudition, semi-Joycean in language, glacial in pace, irritatingly opaque in plot and character, The Recognitions is one of those eruptions of personal vision that will be argued about without being argued away. U.S. novel writing has a strikingly fresh talent to watch, if not to cheer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Counterfeiters | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

Captain Ken Culbert (177), who advanced to the semi-finals of the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Championships at Penn State last night, will face Pittsburgh's national champion Solomon at 2 p.m. today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Culbert Wrestles in Semifinals | 3/12/1955 | See Source »

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