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Word: semi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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STEELWORKERS' FINANCES are in the best shape ever, as the union negotiates with the steel companies. Semi-annual audit shows an increase of almost $2,000,000 in the kitty as of Dec. 31, and a new total net worth of $15.8 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jun. 14, 1954 | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...fellow reviewers. Drama critics, he wrote, can be divided into two groups: "The boozed eulogists at one extreme, at the other the starved, fasting mockers. They are drawn from the long and once respectable ranks of the nearly brilliant and they address themselves . . . to the suburban fortresses of semi-culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mythmaker at Work | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

Rittenburg had qualified for the 220 low hurdles, but missed out in the semifinals. Peter Dow, a point-winner a year ago, also qualified in the 100 and 220 yard dashes, and failed in the semi-finals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rittenburg, Siler Lead Track, Field | 6/2/1954 | See Source »

...front pages by trying to help their fellow Texan, Robert R. Young, catch an iron horse-the $2.7 billion New York Central Railroad. The Central deal started with a long-distance phone call last March. Young, an ambitious dreamer who has exchanged Texas roughness for Newport's semi-suavity, had run into trouble in his campaign to win the Central. From Palm Beach, he called Murchison and said, "I need some help." Murchison called Richardson in California and said, "I need some help." Richardson took the call just as he was starting out for a round of golf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: The New Athenians | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

...Crimson's Ham Gravem and Brooks Harris advanced to the semi-finals of the doubles before being eliminated in three sets by Bill Cranston and Al Englander of Yale. In the singles, Harris lost in the quarterfinals to Englander. Third round losers for the varsity were Gravem and Mike Levinson. Dan Mayers was eliminated in the second round Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eli Tennis Team Wins N. E. Intercollegiates | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

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