Word: dawns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music over the French national radio, the BBC, Swiss. Belgian and Monte Carlo stations, the Finnish, Polish and Swedish networks. When the sessions in the opera house were over for the night, players from all the bands swarmed into Nice's nightclubs to play jam sessions until dawn...
Romps on the Floor. A stocky man with twinkling, rimless glasses, Isaiah Bowman has run his university with grandfatherly firmness. He has often irritated trustees with his stubbornness, sometimes infuriated faculty members by prompting men regardless of seniority. Though he sometimes gets up at 2 a.m. and works until dawn, he always has time for children. Visitors often come upon him and his four grandchildren ("Gumdrops," he calls them), rolling and shrieking on the floor, while his wife ("Pistol Packin' Mamma") looks...
Once more the American Veterans Committee has stepped forward to plug a leaky hole in the University's facade. In the past, AVC committees have scraped up housing for married veterans, and found College rooms for hard-pressed commuters who had to rise at dawn to make a 10 o'clock class. Now the problem is the substantial rent increase for next term, announced by the University on February 15. AVC declares that it is ready to assist students who find that this new expense will plow too heavily into their budgets. A special AVC committee, which is already investigating...
...Everywhere & Nowhere." The dawn was breaking beyond Turkish Thrace as the patrol, swinging back toward headquarters by another route, clattered into Kalamokastron. Here, the chagrined Greek captain discovered, the Andartes had raided that very night but had left hurriedly when the grapevine-remarkably swift for an area without formal communications-brought news that the patrol...
...paintings were spread flat on the floor, surrounded by tiny fences. Gallerygoers threaded among them at Colorado Springs last week like children in a greenhouse, fascinated by things they never imagined before. At their feet, protected by painted rainbows and sacred animals, lay Mother Earth and Father Sky, Dawn Boy, Sun and Moon-all weirdly elongated figures, with plumed, square masks for the female powers and round masks for the male. Carrying medicine bundles and lightning, they paraded among cornstalks, bluebirds and a host of stranger Powers, including Dontso...