Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nose-grinding laymen, Eddington's vast conceptions were somehow vastly comforting. He once predicted that the expanding universe, "this ball of radio waves," would end in "one stupendous broadcast," but gave assurance that this event would not take place for perhaps 90 billion years. As for man, Eddington dismissed him as "one of the gruesome results" of a cosmic accident by which "some lumps of matter of the wrong size have occasionally been formed...
First big event of the winter social season will be the Lowell-House Christmas formal, to be held on December 9. The Lowell dance committee has announced that it will take place in the Bellboys' dining hall from 8:30 to 12 o'clock...
...routine: presiding over the Senate when the Vice President is away. But Senator McKellar could consider another possibility. If the President of the U.S. dies, the Senate President pro tem becomes the de facto Vice President of the U.S. (without inheriting the right of succession). And in that event, Spoilsman McKellar would also get a $5,000-a-year salary increase, plus a Government automobile, with chauffeur...
Then, somewhat in the manner of a fraternity president ordering initiates to "assume the angle," he gave the two companies a special crack across the backside. He inserted a special clause permitting any Victor or Columbia artists to break their contracts in the event A.F.M. called a strike against the companies...
Another welcome is in order. It is given to that new Destroyer, the Barbara Elaine Beckham. Congratulations, Daddy and Mrs. Bockham. Such a blessed event only proves to us that even D.O.'s are human...