Word: semi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...squash tennis champion from 1914-26, to a tight score in an exhibition match. This year, at 58, white-haired, lithe Eleonora Sears is still going strong. Last week, in the Atlantic Coast squash championship (at Atlantic City), first big tournament of the season, she reached the semi-finals in a field of top-flight players, most of whom were half...
Published in the U. S. are one literary annual and one semi-annual of proved vitality. They are New Directions in Prose & Poetry, published by New Directions in Norfolk, Conn., and Twice A Year, a Semi-Annual Journal of Literature, The Arts and Civil Liberties, published by Twice A Year in Manhattan. Each is a subsidized enterprise, each is edited by its own patron, and each claims a more independent policy, a purer concern with pure literature, than professional publishing can show. Readers in the autumn of 1939 could look to them for such nonconformist stuff as The Dial...
...Tokyo, members of the Japanese Whiskers Club held their semi-annual meeting, toasted Naosaburo Kato (left, in cut), claimant to the title of Longest Beard in the Orient...
TIME, Nov. 20 - "Will Durant [belongs] with the modern breed of synthesizers whose aim is to get knowledge into the heads of semi-educated people...
...your sister publication, LIFE, continually poke fun at us poor "semi-educated people" who are doing the best we can toward "self-improvement...