Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christmas story competition is an annual event for the Radcliffe Christmas Supper. Students often begin their scripts as early as June in anticipation of the contest...
...have also pioneered in the presentation of the effect specific legal action has on culture and therefore on society. The sharp contrast between the sober opinions of lawyers and judges, and the emotional cries of poets, novelists, and playwrights gives the reader a powerful three-dimensional picture of the event. This book is a major contribution to history, sociology...
...Every Perch. Washington, which months ago had abandoned Harry Truman to the Dewey landslide, now pulled itself together fast. It was set to stage one of the biggest of its conquering heroes' welcomes. Government workers and schoolchildren were let out for the event; hours before the President's train arrived, every perch and post on the hero's highway of Pennsylvania Avenue was taken. Police estimated the crowd...
...Harvard Youth for Democracy feels that the recent attack on one of its members while he was distributing authorized leaflets is an extremely serious event. It is serious not so much because of the injuries it caused but rather because it is a violent attack on the rights of a political minority. It is our opinion that such attacks--and they have been many in recent months--are a grave threat to the free institutions of American democracy. We believe that these attacks should be attributed to the current well-planned campaign of hysteria aimed at all progressives...
...China with calm, as brought, out in your editorial "Chinese Puzzle" (Nov. 6), appears to be quite practical, but is actually a masterpiece of near-sighteness. That Harry Truman is a follower of this same policy is only another factor that makes his recent victory such a tragic event...