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Word: semis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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William was crowned that Christmas morning. Had he merely conquered, England would still have been pulled from its semi-Scandinavian orbit and into the ferment of Western Europe, and English would still have been transformed into a different language, one with words that came by way of France, words like different and language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 11th Century: William The Conqueror (c. 1027-1087) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...ready-made identity, offering a whole subculture to anyone who was prepared to shell out for CDs, let their hair grow out and have a good time. Back then I found it a little creepy, because the people who fell into this crowd were often the school's semi-lost souls, and deciding to like Phish seemed an unreliable way of finding oneself...

Author: By Jody H. Peltason, | Title: Creating a Musical Taste | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...staff writer for the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, was caught trying to vandalize The Harvard Crimson building...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimeds Nab 'Poon Prankster on 14 Plympton Roof | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...large group of loud students was reported outside the Lampoon castle, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. The students were to found to be trying to tell jokes. They were unsuccessful...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Blotter | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...certain highly wrought quality. The artists seem to share a concern for each piece as a made object, for the physicality of their media and for the creation of new effects by the manipulation of materials. Benjamin Cotham's paintings of faces, overglazed many times over by layers of semi-transparent black paint, demonstrate the pay-off of this awareness. His invention of a new way to treat paint allows him to make terrifically eerie pieces; as with a hologram, the image is only visible from certain angles and in certain lights...

Author: By Annie Bourneuf, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: "Salon" at the Adams House Art Space | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

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