Word: semis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Singles match will take place at 3 p.m. on the "center court," with R. Israel meeting Dick Holroyd. Holroyd defeated E. Senehi in the semi-final round yesterday, while Israel ousted D. Keesing earlier in the week by the score...
Earlier in the week, in the Men's Doubles semi-finals, the team of Shapere and Tchen ousted W. Deeble and K. Hill (6-1, 6-1), while Seigel and Gordon defeated M. Hall and M. Eames...
...position was not without its own strength. In Egypt and the Arab world, the 38-year-old strongman who boasts that he will "extend the Arab homeland from the Atlantic Ocean to the Persian Gulf," became overnight the most vaunted hero since Saladin. Thirty-two governments, said his semi-official news service, acclaimed his deed, ranging from Communist China to Franco's Spain. Saudi Arabia's King Saud sent Nasser a personal message: "I am with Egypt with all I possess." Jordan's young King Hussein cabled that Nasser's victories must bring "Arabism...
...year." So said Bethlehem Steel's Chairman Eugene G. Grace last week as the steel strike ended (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) and he took a good look at piled-up demand. Like other steelmen, Grace reported that his company had "never been so low in working inventories of semi-finished steel," while its orders for structural steel were "greater than we've ever seen before." The unleashed steel demand was piling atop an economy already operating "at a record rate, well above the same period a year ago," according to a Commerce Department survey of 1956's first...
...obscurity (there is no all-inclusive calendar of Catholic saints). Notable among the additions is St. John Cassian. 5th century patriarch of monasticism, whose work was rated by St. Benedict as, after the Bible, the most suitable reading for Benedictine monks. Butler banned him. presumably for his leanings toward semi-Pelagianism (heretical insistence on man's perfectibility without God's help), but Attwater prefers to call him "anti-Augustinian." Other newcomers are those canonized since Butler's day-among them Joan of Arc, Terese of Lisieux, Pope St. Pius X, Mother Cabrini (first U.S. citizen...