Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kandy's temple is one of Buddhism's holiest shrines. It is supposed to house a tooth of the Gautama Buddha, brought to Ceylon for safekeeping in the 4th Century. The Portuguese claim to have burned this relic in the market place at Goa in the 16th Century, and since then successive teeth have been stolen from the temple by other invaders. But pious Buddhists still believe that the enshrined relic, a chunk of ivory 20 times the size of an ordinary tooth, is the original...
Golfer Bing Crosby was elected to buy champagne at the Cypress Point clubhouse on Monterey Peninsula, Calif. On the 16th hole-222 yards, with a 200-yard carry-over across an inlet of the Pacific-he shot a hole-in-one. "We were shooting into the sun," he explained to the press afterward. "So I just stood up and smacked one blind...
...nation's only two undefeated college basketball teams kept their slates clean. New York University won its 16th straight and Columbia made it 14 in a row. Though both are New York City teams, they are not on each other's schedules, and until last week had no victims in common. But last week, partisans who wondered how N.Y.U.'s fast-break game would fare against Columbia's slow, deliberate attack had something to argue about. Cornell, which had dropped two games (by 61 to 48 and 58 to 53) to N.Y.U. earlier in the season...
...Theater Workshop, have been struggling with Sanders' physical layout. The stage itself meets the requirements of Elizabethan drama, and impressionist plays like "Our Town," where any hare platform will do. The choice of plays has often revolved on the problem of what can be done with poor old 16th century Sanders. In some cases, a whack at a play that is neither impressionist nor Elizabethan has produced ingenious efforts at staging the near impossible, but for the most part, the Sanders stage lias severely limited the selection of material...
...experience chairing the as-yet-unnamed intra-University (College, Law, Business, Engineering, Divinity, etc., Schools) organization. Everyone laughed. Not much was said about the new organization. Another matter came up about the X-raying of College students by the Cambridge TB Association which will begin on February 16th. though the service will be free, Weld made the astute observation that the Association's hope for 5200 victims was overly hopeful as he believed the average, normal Harvard undergrad wouldn't bother to walk past the X-ray machine if it were placed between him and the dining hall. A committee...