Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which medieval monks illuminated the writings of the Church Fathers and the lives of the Saints. But their subject matter was more surrealistic than sacred. Their usual theme: the horror of war, illustrated by such symbolism as rotting flesh on temple steps. There were no heroics. In the new Dark Age, saints bore assumed names, and martyrdom was usual...
...rainy night in 1941, a young Presbyterian minister and his dark-haired bride arrived at their first parish. Scotts Run, near Morgantown, West Va., was a drab example of a drab species-the coalmining community. In its unpainted houses set among barren yards lived 5,000 mine folk. But Scotts Run was just where the Reverend Richard Charles Smith wanted to live...
...night the train guards were sleepy. The prisoners went into the lava-tory of the third-class coach, closed the door, forced the window and climbed out. "At intervals telegraph poles whisked past our noses with a blowing noise, like seals coming up to breathe on a pitch-dark night ... I jumped ... I found myself doing neck rolls down a granite-chip embankment. I came to rest in a little gully. . . . It was stifling, suffocating, wonderful to be free...
Caps and gowns, obtainable around the Square, or dark suits will be worn by candidates for degrees at Thursday's Commencement Exercises. Graduating seniors and their fathers are invited to the General Alumni Luncheon in the Yard at 12:15 o'clock and all graduates to the Annual Meeting of the Alumni Association in Tercentenary Theatre at 2 o'clock. The procession of Alumni for the Association meeting will form in front of Massachusetts Hall at 1:30 o'clock...
Floyd Stahl's Varsity nine, attempting to climb up over the .500 mark, will be playing the dark horse at 3:30 o'clock tomorrow when it takes on a high-flying Yale squad at Soldiers Field. This game will be the first in the historic series since 1943, when the Crimson outslugged its rivals...