Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began the practice of inviting visiting dignitaries and distinguished men from the University to come for the 40-cent lunch and talk with the staff. Julian Huxley, H. L. Mencken, and the psychologist Carl Jung are among the diverse visitors the Clinic has had. The late Robert Benchley also came. He arrived in the middle of the joke experiment. Benchley showed great interest in all the apparatus used to measure a person's internal and external responses to the jokes, and in a few weeks the Clinic staff was reading an elaborate parody of their experiment, which Mr. Benchley...
Besides its official visitors, the Clinic also has unofficial ones. One was a little old lady who came in and demanded a Certificate of Good Conduct. She explained that the Devil kept accusing her of being sinful, that she wasn't, and that she wanted something she could show him to prove it. The Clinic obligingly manufactured a certificate. It evidently satisfied the Devil, because the little old lady hasn't been back since...
...Provost implies that the original information on Mr. Cohen came from this undercover FBI agent...
Holt hastened to point out, however, that nearly every student who came to his Weld Hall office had been offered some kind of job. Half of them, however, vacillated about the opportunities extended them for reasons of salary or hope of a more pleasant job, Holt explained...
Cartier first came to Harvard in the fall of 1936 and received his A.M. in 1937. During the next two years he studied abroad as Arnold Travelling Fellow from Harvard. In 1946, after service in the Army and a summer of study in Mexico he returned to Harvard to teach...