Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the undergraduates seem to take their religion seriously, they find a social balance in the fairly extensive Dartmouth fraternity system. The red brick and white frame fraternity houses which stand in a semi-circle around the dormitories and class buildings are the centers of both undergraduate life and discussion...
...intense, bushy-haired young professor could frequency be seen ambling through the crowded streets of Jerusalem two years ago, carrying on extended conversations with rabbis and refugees, artists and intellectuals. After searching out the colorful inhabitants of Israel's metropolis, Jacob Taubes felt he had found "deeper wisdom among semi-literates than among many college graduates...
...UMass a Student Senate, which is elected by the students in often spirited campaigns and corresponds roughly to the Harvard Student Council. The Senate has the added power, however of administering the student tax, a tax of approximately $40 a year which finances such items as the University's semi-weekly newspaper and its cattle judging team, a team of agriculture students that competes with groups from other colleges in judging livestock. Since the tax is administered by the popularly-elected Senate, however, it meets practically no opposition from among the students...
...edition of the Miss Radcliffe contest picks up momentum today as the field of over 40 beautiful contestants is narrowed to 18 semi-finalists...
...elder son Cyril got himself killed in World War I in a deliberate effort to prove his manhood and expiate his father's crime. For close to half a century, the shy and sensitive younger son Vyvyan kept the secret of his past hidden in a life of semi-retirement and seclusion. Last week, in a biography published in England,* 68-year-old Vyvyan, whose last name was changed to Holland, told what it was like to spend a lifetime as the hidden son of Oscar Wilde...