Word: semis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain Ted Cooney will be seeking revenge against Yales' Jerry Fehr, who defeated him two up in the semi-finals of the easterns on Monday to give Yale the team victory and who also won 65 to 68 last year when the pair met. Fehr won his second straight Eastern Intercollegiate Championship Monday...
...Crimson golf semi-finalists yesterday were eliminated in the Eastern Intercollegiate Golf Association Championships at New Haven...
...that the present spot-checking procedure is inadequate cannot be fully substantiated until after the pending congressional investigation. Nonetheless, even the half-heartedness of the response to this week's embargo--many states and cities ignored it--shows the insufficiency of federal control over manufacture alone. Conflicting rumors, semi-panic, and misinformation which have prevailed, make centralized Federal jurisdiction mandatory during the emergency...
English had no delusions about his quarry being overhead; his aiming procedure was among the best of nineteenth century dueling practices--the so-called delope. The act of firing into the air was simply a semi-honorable way of announcing "I'm scared to death, couldn't we possibly call this thing off?" English at last perceived, however, that Foster's honor would not be satisfied without being fired upon. Consequently, on the third exchange English levelled his bead and pulled the trigger. Foster fell dramatically to the ground, and English, thinking his opponent dead or wounded, left the field...
...work was performed by a fine semi-amateur company. The music was almost unrelieved dissonance, both in the 35-pIayer orchestra and in the singers' melodic lines. But it provided a Lucullan feast of varying moods, from the poignant ending of the courtesan's part ("For me, too, prodigious Rome/ Could not protect from prodigious Rome") to the heartbreaking aria of the bereaved fishwife. The fine unison chorus at the end was as rousing as a latter-day Verdi's, and the pure major triad that sang out as the curtain fell was a real shocker...