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Word: semi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members of the varsity squash team lost out in the semi-finals of the Invitational Intercollegiate Squash Racquets Tournament on the University Club of New York courts during the vacation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Team Advances Two To Semi-finals | 1/5/1954 | See Source »

...Woman (Rosemary Clooney Ferrer and José Ferrer; Columbia). Semi-philosophical maunderings about the nature of each. (Sample: "A woman, a woman, / Oh what can she be? / Whatever she is, she's necessaree.") It has a catchy tune, but is too hoked up to be funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Jan. 4, 1954 | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

...victory put the Crimson into the semi-finals against Dartmouth. The Indians triumphed, 77 to 69, for their sixth straight win of the season. The under dog varsity was behind all the way, and only a 28-point splurge in the fourth quarter kept the Crimson from a severe trouncing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Takes Third Place in Tourney | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

...decision to retire at 58 had been made after the war, when she came out of semi-retirement in Norway to return to opera and the world's concert stages. She wanted to quit while she was still in top voice, she said. Besides, she was just plain tired of public life. She wanted to retire to her big house in Kristiansand, on the southern coast of Norway, and sing only when she felt like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Songs of Goodby | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

Prizewinner Venturi, 35, a specialist in murals, submitted a plan for a "magic quadrangle"-a court enclosed by a wall of varying heights on which would be colored mosaics representing scenes and characters from the Pinocchio story. Sicilian-born Sculptor Greco's entry was a tall semi-abstraction showing the Good Fairy pulling Pinocchio from a tree trunk with a great bird hovering above them. When cast in bronze, Greco's figure will stand a little away from Venturi's magic quadrangle on the grounds of Collodi's stateliest 18th century villa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Two for Pinocchio | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

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