Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freshman advisers have been known to offer advice. Some of it has even been of use. But there is a reliable betting establishment that will offer odds of five, two, and even that such will not be the case with your freshman adviser. In any event choose your courses with a certain amount of humility. You have a lot of time before you make up your final course list. Don't be dogmatic about the choices you listed today. Shop around. If you find something that you like better, you can change your course without charge before October...
Austrian in Edinburgh. Last week the man who blueprinted the festival could relax. With justifiable pride, Rudolf Bing could say: "We have sold a quarter of a million tickets in three weeks, not for a sporting event, but for Mozart operas, a Greek tragedy [John Gielgud's production of Robinson Jeffers' Medea], Hamlet in French and high-class orchestral music...
...boards or courts of inquiry have produced 40 volumes of printed matter on the Pearl Harbor disaster of Dec. 7, 1941. For a crisp account of the event, its causes and consequences, laymen may put their trust in frosty Captain Morison, U.S.N.R. (on inactive duty). The Rising Sun in the Pacific is a clear record of a complex of failures...
Nixon: Well, of course, you are leaving open the possibility that you might have seen him in the event that that should come out in the proof before the committee...
...Harry Truman, a scuttle of ashes: "A genuine if superficial liberal, but so inept that he cannot give effective liberal leadership in the extraordinarily unlikely event of his election, much less in his defeat...