Word: advent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acoustics-conscious as never before since the advent of hifi, Kresge Auditorium is becoming something of a test case...
...house intramural athletic program has come to a temporary halt with the advent of Christmas holidays. No standings are yet ready in squash, which began competition this week, but in basketball and hockey the following represent the current standings. Competition resumes again on Jan. 9. BASKETBALL (A League) W L W L WIN 3 0 KIR 2 2 LOW 3 1 ADAMS 1 3 LEV 2 1 DUN 1 2 ELIOT 2 2 DUD 0 3 BASKETBALL (B League) W L W L WIN 3 0 ELIOT...
...amazing Isabella Stewart Gardner, was a Boston legend long before she died. People said she scrubbed the steps of the Church of the Advent as a penance and led two lions on the end of a ribbon down the main street of Boston. They swore that three footmen accompanied her carriage when the royalty of England stopped modestly at two. Those who knew her well deny the stories, but nevertheless, the truth about Mrs. Jack as she was called, was sufficiently exciting for the people of Boston around the turn of the century. Today, however, she is remembered...
Western visitors will find their advent well prepared for. In the past seven years, a feverish activity has seized Moscow: broad new thoroughfares have been dynamited through the old quarters, big buildings have been lifted and put down in new alignments, broad plazas and parks have been created. Eight skyscrapers, 20 to 38 stories high, have sprung up like corn, and more than a million trees have been planted...
...judges, Joan plays out the great scenes of her life: the coming of the voices, the assignations with angels and the beating she got when her father thought they were men, the political rehearsal with a rural winesack (Theodore Bikel), the advent at Chinon, the brotherhood in arms (Bruce Gordon) and the rich reek of fighting France -stale wine, hot harness -that kept her head clear through the glory and the banners and the blood. Scene follows scene without shift; past follows present follows past as sun follows shadow on a dappled day. As Joan strides through her story...