Word: event
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first journey beyond the earth, either to the moon or one of the planets; 4) the re-emergence of Atlantis; 5) the first real proof of a life after death; 6) discovery and photographing of a live prehistoric monster; 7) discovery of an eyewitness to a major event in history, such as the Crucifixion; 8) the first atom bombing of New York City; 9) the second coming of Christ...
Gardenia in Hair. Fortnight ago, eleven days after being released (72 days off for good behavior), Billie made her comeback in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. It was jampacked (300 were seated on the stage) with a crowd of Holiday cultists whose hysterical applause gave the event the quality of a revival meeting. They were telling their martyred Billie that nothing mattered, just so she was back, and that for their money (up to $3.60 a head) she could do no wrong...
...principal event of the dinner was to be the "Swede" Nelson sportsmanship award to place kicker Everett Dorr of Boston University, with another presentation scheduled for Harlow. When the time came, Dick rose slowly to receive his gift, a nautically mounted clock and barometer bearing the inscribed affections of the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston. Then he moved to the microphone, uncertainly it seemed, and quietly he began to speak...
Further Council action, in the event of a rebuff by the Faculty Committee, was a distinct possibility, Bingham said. As chairman of the Council sub-committee on student activities, he declared that he would ask the Council to press the matter, probably at its next meeting...
...convocation, perhaps the most important event of the international academic year, will honor a university which gives precedence in age only to Peking, Paris, and Oxford. Representatives from every major center of learning in the world had accepted invitations to the gathering late this week...