Word: semis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spivak, a Sophomore who locked even more boyish alongside veterans like Barney Ewell, Eddie Conwell and Herby Thompson, was reasonably nerveless in all three sprints. He beat Herby Thompson in one of the qualifying heats, nailing second place. In his semi-final heat he broke on top and led all the way, winning in 5.6. Then came the final. The Crimson sprinter was way over his head in this one, finishing fifth behind Barney Ewell...
...downstate Illinois in fief. His Prohibition Era battles with other gangs took a toll of more than 40 lives. He equipped his boys with dynamite, machine guns and a fleet of armored cars, once rented an airplane to bomb a rival's stronghold. Grey-haired, and living in semi-retirement on a 4,000-acre farm near Fairfield, Ill., he was shot one morning last October as he drove to town in his jeep. Adds the ballad,* written by his gangster brother, Earl...
...Eagle-Lion) is a semi-documentary about a couple of U.S. Treasury agents on the trail of a counterfeit gang. It was obviously put together without much time or money to spare, and as often happens under such circumstances, vitality and unpretentiousness get a chance to exert themselves. The result is a nice, brisk, intelligent little B-plus melodrama, far more real and entertaining than the general run. Chief credits go to Players Dennis O'Keefe, Wally Ford and Alfred Ryder (Broadway's blooming June Lockhart is also present), to Writer John C. Higgins and Director Anthony Mann...
...usual semi-annual reports of benzedrine-happy students filtered into the Medical Department, Arlie V. Bock '15, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, yesterday warned against the drug's use as a study stimulus...
...Berlin, the American authorities refused to approve a Soviet version of Tom Sawyer for German schools. The reason was a preface which said: "Twain's scorn is directed primarily against the semi-education of parvenus and refined people who imitate the European way of life. . . . The whole mendacity of the capitalistic class, the hypocrisy and bigotry in the U.S. of his time are attacked without leniency or mercy." However, without U.S. sanction, 400,000 Berlin children go on using Soviet-proposed books because the U.S. has not supplied any schoolbooks...