Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Monrovia was flag-decked and floodlit as it embarked, with prayer and fireworks, on three weeks of fortissimo festivities. The era of the mammy-chair formally drew to a close; the U.S. made Liberia a birthday gift of a brand-new, $18,000,000 port (a miracle financed by Lend-Lease funds...
...Central Park. They heard Dr. Pedro de Alba, Mexican Ambassador to Chile and former assistant director of the Pan American Union, declare that Bolívar's spirit now lives in the 55-nation Assembly of the United Nations. It was July 24, the 164th birthday of the man for whom a country and a dozen towns* have been named...
Harvard's oldest living graduate, Theodore Parker Adams '67, celebrated his 102nd birthday yesterday in Plymouth with a quiet family dinner at his home. With him was his wife, a mere youngster of 75 years...
...small apartment outside Jerusalem last week, an old man read telegrams from scholars and statesmen all over the world. All week, Jerusalem had been celebrating Judah Magnes' 70th birthday. The Palestine Broadcasting Co. arranged a special program in his honor; the great Hebrew University, which he helped to found and has headed for 22 years, presented him with its first honorary degree...
Three minutes of silence on the second birthday of atomic warfare to be observed by churches, trade unions, business groups, and other organizations throughout the world was asked at a June meeting of the Congress...