Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yale grabbed all four semi-finals berths in the singles and both positions in the doubles finals before rain stopped the New England Tennis Intercollegiates at Hanover, N.H., yesterday...
Writers of the sea, like war novelists, test their heroes by putting them through an ordeal. In his semi-documentary novel. Gulf Stream North, Author Earl Conrad pits a simple crew of Florida Negroes against schools of unpalatable fish called menhaden, and gives their humble ordeal moments of tragic dignity...
...haggled over everything from the art of doctoring pictures to the merits of telephone transcripts, the Greatest Show on TV is moving into its third week. Crawling through points of order, irrelevancies, and grandstand speeches, the McCarthy-Army controversy has become unpopular both to a large share of its semi-captive audience and some of the principles involved. A growing sentiment, represented by Senator McCarthy when he called it "a fight over a private in the Army," teamed with his frequent allusions to "razors near America's jugular vein" have resulted in considerable pressure to cut short the hearings...
...alumni, according to editor Hall, because "everyone likes gossip." One cannot mention the Bulletin's alumni notes, however, without mentioning Jane E. Howard. Miss Howard, former secretary and now assistant to the magazine's editor, has painstakingly complied and checked the notes for 32 years. She is known, semi-officially, as "the lady without whom the Alumni Notes would appear under the wrong classes or never appear...
...number two or number three man in the Army match. While his Pinehurst, McAllister played what his teammates described as sensational golf. This week at the Charles River course McAllister shot a 35 on the back nine to tie Cooney, the varsity's number one man. Cooney reached the semi-finals of the New England Amateur Championships last year...