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Word: semis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marietta is unusually strong for a midwestern crew, and Notre Dame and Purdue should provide the comic relief for spectators. The Fightin' Irish made it to the semi-finals of the Dad Vail Regatta last week, and have beaten such teams as Worcester Poly, Amherst, and Grand Valley State (Mich.). Wisconsin killed Purdue in an early race, mounting only a 28-strokes per minute closing sprint to finish off the Boilermakers...

Author: By Peter D. Lennon, | Title: Heavies Row In Cincinnati | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...years-from the day she toddled on to a Paisley, Scotland, stage to pipe Roamin' in the Gloamin' at the age of two. Besides Finian, she did Sons o' Fun and George White's Scandals, then went on to movies and TV until her semi-retirement in the 1950s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 9, 1969 | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...even clearer in a subsequent sequence where the captain, swimming underwater, sees his wife's face. The shifting appearance of his objective surroundings blends with the illusion superimposed on him: his wife is present in both metaphor and fact. The film's last shot does the same through another semi-metaphor for personal experience. The couple reunited, the barge casts off, and Vigo cuts to a very high shot of the barge (from an airplane) which sweeps over it as it sails down river. The shot is a metaphor for their continuing progress, now stabilized by their reunion...

Author: By Mike Prokosch, | Title: Zero de Conduite and l' Atalante | 5/6/1969 | See Source »

...with a strong offense sparked by Leland Faust and Dave Powlison, and a tight defense bolstered by goalie Phil Whitten and Terry Flanagan, Harvard downed Fordham University, 16-8, to make the semi-finals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard 7th In AAU Water Polo | 4/22/1969 | See Source »

TOMMY and Nora were to embrace to the side of the camera, with Phoebe catching their reflection on a piece of semi-reflectant tinted glass held in front of the camera lens. The lens was pointed towards the fireplace, so the embrace would be superimposed on the flames. Someone said this shot had been done before, in a Melina Mercouri picture...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The World is a Big Box | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

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