Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...abstractions had brought him general recognition as a pioneer in modern U.S. art. But for Alfred Maurer himself, the recognition came too late. In 1932, after he was past 100, Louis Maurer died and Alfred moved down from his crowded back room to his father's large, airy quarters. In two weeks, apparently overwhelmed by a sense of failure and loneliness, he went back to his hall bedroom and hanged himself...
...long as he is resident in the islands, he appears to be safe from the U.S. tax collectors. Gardner resents the imputation that he is a tax dodger. "It's just a hell of a good business opportunity," he explains. "I want to make pictures and I came here because they're cheaper to make in Puerto Rico than anywhere else...
...usual, the freshmen came early. In a cold drizzle, four upper classmen with big "Ask-Me" badges on their coats waited impatiently on the station platform for the 9:03 to round the bend. Among its passengers would be the first wave of the Class of '53. The train was half an hour late...
...great gush, like a city that has survived a plague, the campus came to life. Bare walls suddenly had pictures; windows had bright new curtains. In the roadways, cars were emptied of bridge lamps, wastebaskets and even a pair of antlers. In one house a janitor wrestled with a trunk ("I should be twins today"). The Head of House tried to make everyone feel at home. "The girls get prettier every year," she burbled. "At least we think so for the first few days...
...time their bustles gave way to hobble skirts; middy blouses came & went. Meanwhile, President "Princess Alice" Freeman, who first organized the college into 14 departments, resigned to marry a Harvard professor. After her came Mathematician Helen A. Shafer, who set up the system of majors, and portly Caroline Hazard, the great money-raiser, who surveyed her campus from a surrey with a fringe...