Word: concord
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once boasted of never having visited "touristy" Revolutionary landmarks are now setting out from Boston's Park Square, in horse-drawn busses, to visit Old North Church and Bunker Hill; now go by bus and train to see the Minute Man statue on Lexington's Green and Concord's "rude bridge that arched the flood...
...days after Roosevelt spoke, worried Pope Pius XII, addressing 25,000 workmen brought to Vatican City from all parts of Italy, warned: "Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord." He decried anti-religious propaganda among the people, inveighed against labor-employer strife, condemned "social" revolution as "a mere show incapable of realization in fact." More than ever it was apparent that the hope for the underground, and for all Italian democrats, lies first in unconditional surrender, followed by military occupation. After that, if the Allies are wiser than they were in North...
Obvious slips mar an otherwise enjoyable film. It takes place in the most mid-western New England town you've ever seen. If you can picture Concord looking as though cowboys would come hooting through the Common, yu might believe the town is east of the Hudson. And the hero, Ronnie Colman, who graduated from Harvard Law School at an amazingly undraftable age, is plagued with the epithet "Sonny." Acceptance of the bogus New England village apparently implies belief in Colman as "Sonny." Cary Grant tries and tires his old, set role, and Jean Arthur still has a hair...
Only familiar face in the 440 was that of Fred Withington, who took a second behind Larry Stewart of M. I. T. after passing Tom McKenna of Concord High in the home stretch. Max Pincus ran a strong race in the 880, but the powerful sprint of Bob Miller of M. I. T., Who had already won the mile, left Pincus in second place...
There was no rain during the entire trip to spoil the lunch cooked out in the open or the view of Concord Bridge where the Minutemen fired the famous shot that was "heard around the world." Leaders of the trip were Lee Sosman '43, treasurer of the Club, and Betty Reichert, Radcliffe '44, president of the Radcliffe Outing Club...