Word: semis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desire to take politics away from the wicked became a passion and the Kinsellas were successful at it; first, the mayoralty and then the governorship was theirs. Two of the brothers, however, have a disagreement about the way in which the state is being run. The disagreement becomes semi-public, and, then, because of the paths each takes, dangerous to the safety of the family...
...college employs eleven fulltime television specialists, from producers to electronics repairmen, to man its studios. Most professors give two lectures a week on television. Dean Beckel sees an advantage in the ability to add graphics and photographic illustrations to the lectures of what he calls the "semi-live" professors. Television is not suitable, he concedes, for such subjects as English composition, French recitation, math drills and problem-solving in the sciences. But otherwise, he says, "you at least get no worse results than by face-to-face instruction...
Harvard beat Northeastern twice last year, 3-1 at the Arena, and 5-1 in the Beanpot semi-final...
...drugs were found accidentally in a semi-annual locker clearance, which was announced a week in advance. The coin-operated lockers, similar to those in many train stations, are not restricted to B.U. students...
...spark plug that started major safety reforms in the automobile industry. Particularly among the young, paperbacks are used in a direct, intimate way-passages underlined, pages torn out according to need. That was unheard of a couple of generations ago, when books were still relatively scarce and semi-sacred objects...