Word: 200th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reputed that Maria Fay had Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and William James in her kitchen at the same time, all shelling peas. It was also in Fay House that the Rev. Samuel Gilman, a friend of Fay's, wrote the words of "Fair Harvard" for the College's 200th anniversary...
...blocks. Lima's police fought to keep the crowds in hand. Then out through the studded doors of the Church of the Nazarenas and down the narrow street surged a procession of purple-clad penitents, with a great silver litter supported by straining men in the van. The 200th observance of Peru's most popular religious festival, the fiesta of Our Lord of Miracles, had begun...
This week, to mark Pestalozzi's 200th birthday, the Swiss Government officially designated Heinrich Pestalozzi as Switzerland's Man of the Year...
Welcome Home. This month there was a parade in Albuquerque. The city's veterans of the 200th and 515th Coast Artillery, 151 survivors of Bataan and Corregidor and the dark days after, marched proudly down the streets. Nano Lucero marched with them, in a uniform which he no longer had need to disguise. Romana stood among the cheering crowd on the sidewalks, but there was no pride or peace in her heart...
...Last week the historical-minded among southern Methodists, meeting at Lake Junaluska, N.C., sent a petition to President Truman, the Congress and the Department of the Interior. They wanted to clear, restore and officially designate a six-mile section of the Cataloochee as the "Asbury Trail," to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth, Aug. 20, 1745 of American Methodism's most famed circuit rider...