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Word: semis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these two increasingly venerable and vulnerable units met in semi-serious liquid combat yesterday on the Charles to determine bragging rights for the Harvard crews...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Battle of (Aging) Titans | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

Kurt Vonnegut's perennial semi-autobiographical protagonist returns this time as Walter F. Starbuck, and he is a Harvard man. He is so much a Harvard man, in fact, that were Vonnegut less obvious in writing his titles this book might well be called Kilgore Trout Goes to Harvard. Vonnegut's hero still peacefully accepts life's highs and lows, but Harvard has changed him: the lows seem a little lower, the highs a little higher, and the accepting a little harder...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Kilgore Trout Goes to Harvard | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...scored his first professional goal in the Stoners final playoff game of the 1979 season, the league semi-finals, which his club lost on the basis of a penalty kick shoot...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: In the Pros, Ost is Still the Most | 10/19/1979 | See Source »

...American Society of Pathology, which has held semi-annual conventions for 30 years, offers the largest continuing educational program of any medical society in the world, Dr. George F. Stevenson, scientific director of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists, said yesterday. Nationwide, nearly 1000 volunteer faculty members will attend the convention, along with 8000 physicians...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bone Marrow Workshop | 10/10/1979 | See Source »

...kind of double bill any actress would trade her residuals for, Jill Clayburgh, 35, who rose to prominence in Semi-Tough and An Unmarried Woman, stars in two wildly different new films: a dark European drama and a light Hollywood comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Clayburgh's Double Feature | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

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