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Word: athenaeum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Associate Dean Robert B. Watson is expected to approve the charter of the Athenaeum today, in the first attempt in 26 years to establish a University counter-part of the Oxford Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Viereck to Address Athenaeum in First Meeting of New Organization | 4/7/1953 | See Source »

...made fewer spectacular mistakes. None is so little known, and for that, King himself is mostly to blame. Now 74, weakened by a stroke five years ago, he is anxious to find his niche in history, and so has collaborated with Walter M. Whitehill, librarian of Boston's Athenaeum, in what is accurately called "a naval record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Crustacean | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

Harvard men have their own places to drink. For them Scollay Square is primarily the home of the Old Howard, one of the nation's oldest burlesque houses. The Howard Athenaeum has been operating as a theatre continuously since 1845. The building it inhabits was originally built as a Millerite church, and later it was made into a theatre at which Edmund Kean and other great actors appeared. It is now the oldest American theatre...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: Saturday Night in Scollay Square: Burlies, Girlies, Bars, and Bums | 9/12/1951 | See Source »

Sally Rand is an artist who has brought an exciting art to the people. The diminutive blonde, shapely and clever, is currently appearing at the Howard Athenaeum, and this Friday she will appear (for one performance only) at the Freshman Smoker...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: "Art Is My Life," Says Sally Rand | 2/21/1951 | See Source »

Last week a bright-eyed old man sat on a worn leather bench in London's Athenaeum Club and echoed this admonition from Greek Scholar Adolphus Cusins in Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Greek Is Greater | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

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