Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trips to ice skating and skiing centers are featured in the winter, as well as the usual bicycling tours. Bike races were an annual event of the club prior to the war, and Heyman says that they will be revived this year. The record for the race is forty minutes from the Square to Wellesley. Distance records run to more than 110 miles...
...veto. But it is idle to suppose that the U.S.S.R. can be stampeded into such a deal, when they know: 1) that nothing can possibly happen to them for refusing; we are not going to use the bomb for the next five or ten years in any event; 2 ) by that time they will also have the bomb...
...event, originally scheduled for two weeks ago, had been delayed several times, a fact which led Professor Hooton to remark, "It seems that these movie people are about as conscientious in keeping their college appointments as they are in keeping their wives...
This week Ohio's metropolis buzzed happily with plans for making its Founders' Day a memorable sesquicentennial event. Up the twisting, industry-fouled, rat-grey Cuyahoga (rhymes with buy a toga) River, now edged with iron and steel furnaces, oil refineries, factories, warehouses, docks and long ore, coal and grain ships, a small boat will bring Leading Citizens to re-enact the landing (complete to an Indian greeter). There will be the inevitable Civic Luncheon (Clevelanders love anything with the word Civic in front of it). That night in the spacious downtown Mall there will be carnival: floats...
...Inter-European League" (membership would also be open to the Anglo-American-controlled sectors of Germany). Britain and the U.S. will not only do their utmost to raise these nations' standards of living (i.e., increase their fighting strength), but will promise them prompt military aid in the event of their coming into conflict with an expanding U.S.S.R. Simultaneously, intensive anti-Soviet propaganda must be carried on throughout Europe, and extended, by radio, into the U.S.S.R. itself. "Our ultimate aim [in Europe] should be to free all the states of central and eastern Europe and the Balkans...