Word: attending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the World. Last week, Michael Scott called again on the U.N.; this time he won a public hearing before the Assembly's Trusteeship Committee. The South African delegation refused to attend. But others among the 59 delegations listened carefully, read with deep concern a bulky document, In Face of Fear, which the speaker had compiled...
...appearance in a wheelchair. When 30 photographers swooped down on her and let go with flashbulbs, she brandished her cane and cried: "I ought to take this to you." Carleton Smith, director of the National Arts Foundation, who escorted Mrs. Vanderbilt to the opening, said she had decided to attend only after he told her that Queen Mary, who recently gave him an audience in England, had remarked sadly that "so few were left to uphold tradition...
This program in educational broadcasting had been designed by the Lowell Institute of results who would like to take special courses, but who are unable to attend night school...
...does that game lead most of the Sunday sports sections the following day? Why does the Yale game count twice as much as any other game toward earning a letter? Why are the Harvard-Princeton and the Harvard-Yale games the only ones which undergraduates and alumni always attend regardless of price or team records? The Big Three rivalry is hardly meaningless, even though the national title is no longer at stake...
Actually the turnout was a compliment not only to Poets Cummings and Auden, but to year-old Brandeis (named for the late great Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis) as well. Each week, people had been coming from Harvard and Wellesley, from Boston and other nearby towns, to attend Brandeis' new Institute of Adult Education. For so new a university, ambitious little Brandeis was attracting more than its share of attention...