Word: candlelight
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...written by Jay Carney, a Russian and East European studies major at Yale. The People section carries an item about a gigantic "Jaws"-like shark caught off Long Island that was reported by Peter Cleveland, a history student at Columbia University. The photograph of New Yorkers at an antidrug candlelight vigil in the lead Nation story was taken by Carl Ganter, a student in the American-culture program at Northwestern. Throughout the summer the World Notes page has been written by Princeton English Major Wendy Smith, who handled a variety of other articles as well. And this week's cover...
Life in Emma's England may have been pleasant, but no modern intruder would feel at home there. Houses with handsome fireplaces remained pretty cold, reading by candlelight was difficult, and there was still no running water. It was only the industrial era that brought such improvements as household gas lamps in the 1840s, electricity in the 1880s and then the great heap of laborsaving appliances at the turn of the century. In 1870 fully 60% of employed American women worked as household servants; 50 years later most of the servants had vanished, to be replaced by electric vacuums...
...students first sought the meeting after Bok sent alumni a letter that cautioned them against supporting three pro-divestment candidates seeking places on the 30-member governing board. Bok postponed an earlier appointment after protesters held a candlelight march to President Derek C. Bok's Elmwood Ave. residence...
...meeting, sponsored by the Harvard Republican Club, attracted about 15 undergraduates--just two of them from the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) the student group which built the shanties. "The SASC leadership discouraged people from attending" because of a candlelight vigil scheduled for the same time, said SASC member Nathaniel A. Wice...
Chanting "Women Unite! Take Back the Night," about 500 students, faculty and local residents tonight will march by candlelight through campus in an annual effort to increase awareness of violence against women...