Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Bihar villagers heard of the plans for the Kosi dam, they locked their children indoors. Last week their schools were closed, for no pupils would attend. Bazaars and fairs shut down. Panicky villagers feared that 108 children would be kidnaped for sacrifice.* They picked 108 as the proper figure because that is sacred to Hindus. Rama, for instance, one of the incarnations of Vishnu, the Protector, offered his wife Sita 108 lotuses, each with 108 petals...
Salzburg was no house party. Few students had had time even to attend the music festival. The professors, who receive no salary (some of them even paid their own traveling expenses), often had to get up at 4 a.m. to prepare the day's work...
...first Sunday it was open, thousands upon thousands of Minnesotans and Wisconsinites, most of them patients and friends of 72-year-old Dr. William, came to inspect the clinic and attend Lutheran services inside. Its rooms were banked high with flowers from Winonans, whom the old doctor had attended for 51 years. The Heise boys beamed. Dr. William tried not to look too proud...
...prosperous New York contractor; Pepsi-Cola's Walter S. Mack Jr. had struggled up from Harvard. But all remained true to the Alger tradition. They waived a testimonial dinner; they were too busy. Railroader Robert S. Young, also chosen, was too busy even to attend the awarding of the scrolls...
Background music, in the appropriate bucolic mood, will be provided by Ruby Newman on lend-lease from the Hotel Statler, beginning at 7:45. Those without the cutie, car, or cash to attend all this can pick it up in the room easy chair by radio broadcast...