Word: 250th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other five speakers were David F. Wheeler '47, who recited three poems of William Butler Yeats; Albert Feldman '48, who gave James Russell Lowell's Oration on the 250th Anniversary of Harvard; James B. Hompe '50, who delivered an address by Samuel Adams on American Independence; David S. Nicholl '45, who recited Browning's "Andreadel Sarto"; and John J. Trudon III '51, who gave Winston Churchill's address to the French people of October...
Militarily, he is efficient and capable, and he was probably the best man in Spain for the cabinet job. His most recent training in modern warfare was in Russia, where he commanded the Spanish Blues, who fought as the 250th Wehrmacht Division on the Lake Ilmen sector.* There he declared: "We only wish that among the silent graves on the Russian fields are also Spanish graves." His wish has been fulfilled by at least 7,000 Spaniards...
...Saturday, too, Cleveland's station WGAR did itself proud with the most notable program by an inland station yet short-waved to the Philippines. Dedicated to General MacArthur and his men was a Te Deum composed in 1936 by the Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly, to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Budapest's emancipation from Turkey. The program -by the Cleveland Orchestra -was short-waved "live" from Cleveland's Severance Hall, reached Bataan at churchtime Sunday morning. Said Conductor Artur Rodzinski, introducing it: "To you, our salute and our prayers." Said Commentator Kay Halle: "In such moments...
...Lear but to the 110th and the Army. Last week in Olympia, Wash., soldiers from Fort Lewis tossed out mash notes to girls ("Please write to this lonely soldier," etc.) tagged with the postscript: "Don't tell Lieut. General Ben Lear." From 70 noncoms of the 250th Coast Artillery went a challenge to the 110th to a 15-mile marching race. Wrote the 250th: "If we don't finish first without having to write our Congressmen, we'll let you yoo-hoo at us." At a bathing-beauty revue at the El Paso (Tex.) Country Club, brimstony...
...physiologist's description of a sneeze. But such words pale before a sneeze's peppery reality. Last week Professor Marshall Walker Jennison of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology took high-speed, stop-motion photographs of this complicated phenomenon. His findings: 1) every spasm expels thousands of droplets, 250th of an inch in diameter, heavy with millions of germs; 2) human "muzzle velocity" runs as high as 150 feet a second, nearly two miles a minute...