Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Celebrated Lincoln's Birthday by standing at rigid attention under a wan February sun while Major General Harry Vaughan laid the presidential wreath at the foot of Daniel Chester French's brooding statue of Lincoln...
Warming things up for Washington's Birthday in the Indoor Athletic Building pool, the Yardling swimmers meet St. George's best at 2:30 o'clock, before the toughest test for the Varsity to date in the evening...
University students all over the world have just returned to the second half of the academic year. In the United States the occasion was marked with minor celebration, as though another birthday or obscure holiday had broken the comfortable routine. At the University of Athens the opening of the spring semester found another forty students missing from the rolls, apparently tubercular beyond the point of attempting work. At Vienna, University officials announced the end of UNNRA aid to its assembled undergraduate body, and watched the determination in bodies that must undergo a greater fight against winter and loss of health...
Item: Richard Strauss felt superior to the Nazis but not to their money, spent his time writing music for Goering's wedding and Hirohito's birthday. He was, when I visited him last summer, entrenched in Lausanne's most chic hotel, a stooped, white-haired man who was rather ashamed of his position in the world during the past 15 years...
During ceremonies in honor of the Republic's first birthday last week, Hungarian Socialist Arpad Szakasits (a Communist stooge) hinted that the left would soon demand new elections. First, however, all "sworn enemies of democracy" (including many of the Small Holders) must be deprived of the franchise...