Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Members of all colleges in the Boston area have been invited to attend the afternoon career conferences, which will be held in Sever A starting Monday, Feb., 9 and will continue once per week until March 18. The Conference on Foreign Commerce, originally scheduled for this Thursday afternoon, will he held on Thursday...
...hole in the wall - an 8-ft.-by-12-ft. gap between the circular foyer and the straight outer wall of the Old House Office Building. ¶ More than half (47) of the House's big freshman class trooped into the Library of Congress' Coolidge Auditorium to attend a new institution: a school for Congressmen, bipartisan brainchild of such considerate upperclassmen as Maine's Democrat Frank Coffin and New Jersey's Republican Peter Frelinghuysen. In the first class, frosh heard New York Timesman James ("Scotty") Reston tell them how to make news. Senator Hugh Scott, Pennsylvania...
...mother was forced to attend a public meeting at which her husband was denounced. A classmate denounced his own brother, and the brother was executed. A 14-year-old girl denounced her father, and the father killed himself. A professor was denounced, went mad, and ended up "living in a pig sty." Lo himself was subjected to weeks of public criticism for reading pre-Communist novels rather than progressive ones. Then came the directive ordering all politically suspect students and intellectuals sent to the country to reform through manual labor...
...apart, Penny in Gilford, N.H., Betsy in Norwich, Vt. Both were on skis early, Penny using barrel staves with canning-jar rubber bands nailed on for bindings, Betsy with a pair of toy skis. Both grew deadly serious about skiing, wangled time off from high school to attend meets. Both were good enough to make the 1956 Oympic team, where they ran headlong into the great European skiers. Working out on a slalom slope in Italy, they were passed by the French women's team. "They flashed by us like jet planes," Penny recalls. "Betsy and I just looked...
...retain what may be an erroneous view that the natural scientists are less contentious, more generous, and, except for physicists and geneticists, less intellectual." attend a party people think I am observing them even when I am not, and if they meet me on a plane they ask me whether or not I think they are upper-middlebrows...