Word: annual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chatillon has made customer-shocking a million-peso-a-year business. For half an hour before the opening of his annual fashion show last week, the Packards and Cadillacs of traditionally tardy Mexico City society matrons tied up traffic in front of his combined atelier and home on the Paseo de la Reforma. Inside, they sipped cocktails and critically eyed U.S., French and Mexican mannequins in a display of 60 new models ranging from simple afternoon dresses to bare-top evening gowns at from 1,500 to 5,000 pesos each...
...students she brought lecturers of every nationality. She organized an annual UNESCO day, started forums on international problems, packed juniors off for a year of study abroad. Sweet Briar, founded as a ladies' seminary, came alive with international chatter. On bridle paths and under the colonnades, Sweet Briar girls talked long and earnestly about the state of the universe. President Lucas herself often joined in their discussions...
Eighteen-year-old Denise Chambon was one victim of the annual bac (baccalaureate exam) and trac (student term for butterflies in the stomach) that thousands of French youths (and anxious parents) suffer through each fall. Looming at the end of seven years of intensive secondary schooling, the bac orals are the big hurdle for French schoolgirls and boys. To the 65% who pass, success means a bachot certificate and eligibility for entrance to a university or employment in many civil service and professional jobs effectively closed to non-baccalaureates...
Rodman A. Sharp '51 was elected president of the Photographic Society at its annual election meeting Monday night. Other newly elected officers are: William Rotch '51, secretary; Henry M. Stevens, Jr. '50, treasurer; and G. Groff-Smith '49 and Sumner I. Zacks '51, executive board members...
Agassiz's Ghirlandajo Room will resemble a bank Tuesday and Wednesday for Radcliffe's annual Pay Day, at which Annex students mark organizations lists with X's next to the clubs of their choice and put the appropriate dues into envelopes...