Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within a few weeks an event of unique significance will be available to you via your television screen. It is the MARCH OF TIME'S documentary film of General Dwight Eisenhower's best-selling book, Crusade In Europe...
...Garrick could offend, he could also charm. In 1773, Johnson admitted him to the circle, and when he retired from the stage in 1776, the citizens of London gave him tremendous applause at his last performances. To a good many Londoners it was a far more important event than the rebellion then going on in those troublesome American colonies...
...backstroke, the Eli's boast Mike Pettee, consistent winner and one of the East's speediest men in the event. And Pettee has himself been beaten by teammate Al Ratkietwich. From the Yale point of view this race should be Harvard is now tied for third place in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League. It's not going any higher...
...League, wired the Council demanding complete information on the debaters. The data he requested included the age and class of the participants, along with their backgrounds and fields of concentration. When he received the statistics, Griffin advised that he "would make every effort to get here for the event...
Going into the final event, three teams--Winthrop, Dunster, and Kirkland--were tied at 13 points apiece. In the deciding bout, heavyweights Glenn Schultz of Dunster and Jim McNear of Winthrop tore at each other furiously, slugging and pushing each other all over the ring for two rounds before McNear finally out-classed Schultz to take the match that gave the Puritans the title...