Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yale's memorial to its World War II dead will combine the Harvard idea of a memorial plaque with a $10 million scholarship program...
...setting the $70,000 inscription into the walls of Memorial Church. And if the answer is "yes," the gentlemen who head the Harvard Clubs will have violated the democratic principle upon which their organization is founded, and upon which Harvard should choose a memorial to its World War II dead...
...Hall, as the good Yankees call it, burned in 1761. Peter Faneuil couldn't help rebuild it--he had been dead for 18 years--so the town raised money with a lottery. "Faneuil Hall Lottery Tickets" sold slowly, but eventually enough was raised to rebuild the market...
...George Gallup, Elmo Roper, Archibald Crossley and all the other pollsters who had been dead wrong on the election could not see the joke. They had reason to wonder last week whether their great fiasco would not put them, like the Digest, out of business...
Lacking Maldarelli's subtlety in sculpture, Mitzi makes up for it in wit, a wealth of ideas, and a willingness to be laughed at even when she is dead-earnest. The hit of her show was a model for a 114-ft. Family of Man Totem that she thought would look well in front of the U.N. building. ("People told me I was a fool to try it, but I said if I wanted to be diplomatic I wouldn't be a sculptor.") Among the most entertaining exhibits was a bulbous Woman-Shaped Vessel seated in a bird...