Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took over 395,000 acres of henequen (fiber) land in Yucatán and turned it into a vast government collective farm. It was the nearest thing to a Soviet-style Sovkhoz (state farm) outside the U.S.S.R. Cardenas called it the Gran Ejido to distinguish it from numerous smaller semi-collectives in Mexico's ejidal system...
Where the cram schools did a man's work for him, the Bureau, through counseling conferences and private tutoring, helps him to stand on his own feet. In place of abridged textbooks and digested lecture notes, the Bureau runs a semi-annual reading course to encourage faster reading and better study organization...
Perhaps the most unusual and best-known activity of the Bureau is its semi-annual reading course. Last fall two sections, meeting at 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., attracted 300 men and women. Freshmen who showed deficiencies in speed or comprehension on their placement tests made up most of the class, but every spring the course draws a large number of people from the College, graduate schools, and even from the Faculty seeking to improve their reading...
...slow start in a semi-final heat kept the Crimson's second hurdler, Joel Cohen, out of the finals...
Today the CRIMSON takes its semi-annual plunge into the study counseling field with a brief introduction to some promising Monday, Wednesday, and Friday courses. Tomorrow's edition will review the Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday entrants...