Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other three Crimson entries all put on surprisingly good showings. Larry Brownell tripped up third-seeded Art Potter of Navy in the first day of play for the upset of the tourney before losing out on Saturday to Yale's semi-finalist, Blair Murphy...
Norm Wyner of Winthrop, who had knocked out all his previous opponents at 145 pounds this year, scored a three round decision over Alvin German of Dudley in the semi-final round of the inter-House boxing trials last night...
...Sixteen semi-final bouts will be held tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the I.A.B...
...days after the President's decision was announced, the world was startled by another disclosure, from an unexpected source. Pope Pius XII, said L'Osservatore Romano, semi-official Vatican newspaper, had personally intervened in the Rosenberg case, had asked the President for clemency. In the labyrinthine phrases of L'Osservatore (which are all but unintelligible to most Americans), it appeared that the Pontiff had appealed directly to Eisenhower. "As he has mercifully done in other similar cases," said L'Osservatore, "so also in this one he has not failed to intervene insofar as it was permitted...
...schoolteacher from the little (pop. 5,000) mining town of Silver City, N.Mex. sat down and wrote a letter to Screen Actors Guild President Walter Pidgeon. A group of Mexican-American miners and their families, the teacher reported, were hard at work nearby on a semi-documentary movie. The film was being sponsored by the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, which was ousted from the C.I.O. in 1950 for being Communist-dominated. Director of the picture: Herbert Biberman, one of Hollywood's "unfriendly ten" (TIME, May 31, 1948). Director's assistants: Paul Jarrico and Paul...