Word: buffeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's tercentenary class receives its official welcome to undergraduate life at 7.30 tonight in the Union, when President Conant and other officials of the University will address it at the reception in the large dining hall. A buffet supper in the downstairs common room will precede the addresses...
...clock. Buffet supper at the Union...
...clock. Buffet supper at the Union...
...more than 400 retailers boarded the train, some having motored a hundred miles from little farming communities in the surrounding territory. Some brought their wives & children. Big Peoria stores deployed their sales employes through the train in squads of ten to pick up new ideas. And over highballs and buffet snacks the Merchandise Express staff sold $20,000 worth of goods in two days...
...rumors to be ridiculous. However, the bomb explosions that nightly interrupted Vargas' sleep in Montevideo made the visiting President uneasy. On the third day the two presidents and their womenfolk went to the races at Montevideo's Hippodrome. The jockey club president invited them upstairs to the buffet for a glass of Yerba Maté. At the head of the stairs they were met by onetime Nationalist Deputy Bernardo Garcia. He pulled out a gun. Somebody jostled his arm. A shot plunked into President Terra's shoulder. The crowd knocked down visiting President Vargas; his daughter fainted...