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...round-up will feature a formal dance in the Lowell House Dining Room, broken by a midnight feast in the Purtans' Dining Room. Lasting from 10 until 3 o'clock, the dance will offer a soft drink bar, and chairs and tables will be set up in the courtyard for guests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gene Krupa To Play During Senior Spread in Lowell House, June 16th | 6/4/1941 | See Source »

...steep-roofed, three-story house, with the front door opening on the street, an arched carriage entrance at the side. Over the door was a freshly painted sign: "Eggs, venison and fowl, Proprietor Elli Wagner." In the courtyard behind the house still stood the decaying shop, with moldering yellow bricks and sturdy, hand-hewn beams, where Grandfather Willkie, and his father before him, kept their coppersmithy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Willke, Willcke, Willeke | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...second incident occurred a little later when four Harvard students spent a day and a night in an igloo in Leverett House courtyard in an effort to "stage a sit-down strike until Russia withdraws from the Karelian Isthmus or the snow melts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SILLY SEASON? | 2/26/1941 | See Source »

Priest Mayer and Pastor Niemoller see each other occasionally in the courtyard, have become good friends. Their friendship is symbolic of a new bond which is growing between Protestants and Catholics throughout the Reich, where heretofore the two creeds have been divided as in few other lands by bloody memories of the Thirty Years' War. When 30 Confessional pastors were arrested in Prussia, slender, steel-nerved, aristocratic Count Konrad von Preysing, Roman Catholic Bishop of Berlin, directed that prayers for their safety be offered in every church of his diocese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: German Martyrs | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

Into the bleak courtyard of the gloomy Jihlava fortress prison last week broke armed legionnaires of the green-shirted, Fascist, anti-Semitic Iron Guard. From the prison cells they dragged 64 Carolists, lined them up in front of a long trench from whose top they had just ripped a concrete slab. In the frosty dawn they opened fire, watched the bodies crumple to earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: At Last, Chaos | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

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