Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desk for a year to read, discuss, and explore his specialty should be a better-prepared reporter the next time he covers a strike or an election or a race riot. There is the fact that Niemans have risen in their field individually, to make use of their better background in places where it will show...
Half the Harvard Band, the Krocodiloes, and the "Hungry Five" turned up and supplied background music for the singers...
Whatever it was, this early training must have provided Madar with a solid background, because when he entered Northeastern High School in Detroit, where his family had moved, he made first-string halfback, and then played two more years as regular fullback...
...left to catch our plane back to Peiping, the old man still sat at his desk fingering the poison vials. Above his head bas-relief characters in gold on a red background spelled out Yen's maxim: "I can be patient...
...Band has a new bagpiper, and he's a natural. His name is Edward Rossiten '52, and his background is as Scottish as the bagpipe he plays...