Word: advent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With the advent of the Student Activities Center, this problem was solved. The club obtained two rooms on the third floor and permission to string up antennas on the roof. There were only two requirements; the club had to put in its own power line and all the wires on the roof at a cost...
Early stocks do not seem to have been too successful. Some were finally written off as a "Doubtful and Disparate Debt Harvard had two shares of the Charles River Bridge at $3,000 a share; but the advent of free bridges across the river ended this as a source of revenue." The University did try to convince the legislature that Massachusetts owed Harvard repayment for the bridge's annihilation as "productive estate...
...with the advent of the House system, Apthorp underwent a change. The wide window seats became radiators. The second floor bathtub was replaced by a shower, and the whole building was given a new coat of white paint. Professor James Phinney Baxter, now president of Williams, moved in as Housemaster...
...basic purpose of such an investigation is to provide Congressmen with facts necessary for intelligent legislation. Reluctant witnesses who refuse to testify in closed sessions are charged with contempt of Congress, a delicate legal problem. But with the advent of televised open hearings, the probers demand that a witness not only answer their questions but answer them for the instruction and titillation of every TV owner in the country. There is considerable doubt that a witness can legally be punished for refusing to make a public spectacle of himself on the televised screen. Eventually, this will be a problem...
Requiem Mass for Eddie Collins was held at the Church of the Advent yesterday. Tom Yawkey, owner of the Red Sox, Will Harridge, president of the American League, and Stuffy McInnis and Jack Barry, two of Collins' teammates in the $100,000 infield, were pall bearers. Mayor Hynes, former Governor Curley, and other notables were present...