Word: semis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...likely to find himself severely outclassed until he reaches the quarter or semi-finals, and as a result great ability is not a prerequisite for entrance. The winner of last year's men's singles was Frank Fisher, here doing post-doctoral research...
...down-to-earth business details plus the bargaining excitement of a Turkish bazaar, a fictional cast of heroes, villains and gulls-and even a bit of suspense. If a million dollars is not forthcoming in the author's promised 20-year span, one has the publisher's semi-facetious word for it that the price of the book will be refunded...
Brown-haired and blue-eyed, Roy Face is a carpenter in the off season-a trade that runs in the family. His father, grandfather, two brothers and five uncles are all carpenters. When he was 20, he struck out 36 batters in two semi-pro games on successive Sundays, was promptly signed by the Philadelphia Phillies. The Pirates later drafted him from Fort Worth...
...months ago, in a decision that seemed to mark the end of a noble political era, Adenauer abruptly announced that he would give up the powerful chancellorship and retreat into the semi-retirement of West Germany's presidency. He hoped still to help influence his country's destiny, while allowing a younger man to assume the day-to-day administration of the country. Der Alte, first and only leader of the new West German democracy that rose on the ruins of Naziism, would thus ensure an orderly first transfer of power. Instead, abruptly last week, Adenauer canceled these...
...other faith. Knowledge through scholarship is justified and constant questioning become the chief paths to this summum bonum. There are of course all the institutional trappings of a visible church: the hierophantic gamut running from teaching fellow to full professor; the sacraments of grades and commencement, the semi-monastic existence of acolyte graduate students, and ordained faculty...