Word: advent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...H.A.A., which hopes to attract a sizeable crowd in Soldiers Field on the advent of the Yale game, will sign up 100 more ushers for the big contest from 3 to 5 p.m. today at the H.A.A.'s subterranean headquarters in the Union...
...Official news of its advent was carried in our cover story on Caniff (Jan. 13, 1947) when he changed publishers...
...Union, N.J., plans for a new movie theater were scrapped; a $50,000 supermarket will be built in its place. The realtor's reason: "changed conditions and, particularly, the advent of television...
...extra carrier. Next he hoped to get 32 more destroyers, and 400 more planes a year. The Navy, which in the heat of change of command had whispered that Sherman was ambitious, cold and ruthless, was amazed and delighted. One officer, who had greeted Sherman's advent with "This is a dark day for the Navy," admitted later: "The Navy hasn't seen anything like him in a long time...
...sexual laxity current among our own youth is admittedly an unlovely phenomenon from an esthetic point of view. I see no grounds, however, for regarding it as socially dangerous. It is probably here to stay, since the principal props of the older morality have disappeared with the advent of contraception and the scientific mastery of venereal infection...