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Word: eventer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beacon in the Tower. At 83, and just two months away from a gall-bladder operation, Herbert Hoover moved about a little stiffly but the trip to Brussels was, in fact, just another event in a still-crowded life. "You should not retire from work," he said in 1956, "or you will shrivel up into a nuisance . . . talking to everybody about your pains and pills and income tax." In his apartment-office in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Tower, Herbert Hoover keeps busy up to 16 hours a day, keeps two of his three fulltime secretaries on hand seven days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: House Guest | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

Final victory in the afternoon marked the first time that Harvard had won the cup in the 90-year-old event...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undefeated 150-Pound Oarsmen Winners of Henley Challenge Cup | 7/10/1958 | See Source »

...event, Goldfine called in his Post loans to Fox, later appeared as the angel behind a syndicate trying to buy Fox out of the staggering Post. Fox, certainly at least as much through his own behavior and his growing reputation as a fabulous deadbeat as through anything Goldfine might have done, found credit doors slammed in his face. The Post folded on Oct. 4, 1956. In his struggles in the net of finances, John Fox has had federal tax liens slapped on his properties, been hauled through Boston's Poor Debtors' Court, been arrested for failure to meet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UP FROM SOUTH BOSTON The Rise & Fall of John Fox | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...first event of the season, however, will be a Convocation Dance, following tomorrow's opening exercise. The dance, starting at 9 P.M. in Memorial Hall, is free and Summer School privilege cards are not required. Miss Williston said that "we expect many students, especially men, from other colleges--Tufts...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Summer Scholar's Life: Quite a Happy One; Concerts and Lunches, Dances and Punches | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...atomic secrecy provisions. Under the bill the Administration would have discretion to tell any NATO ally the latest facts of the size and destructiveness of nuclear weapons, could also pass along, subject to congressional veto, nonnuclear components of atomic weapons for arming by the U.S. in the event of war. Any ally that had made "substantial progress" in its own atomic weapons program (i.e., Britain), subject to the same veto, could receive actual weapons designs, nuclear materials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Labor Charter | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

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