Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...younger generation piled up firsts in every event except the 200-yard freestyle relay and the 100-yard freestyle races while sweeping first and second place slots in four events...
...year, with a course of 600 students, I had the assistants refuse admission to those who appeared later than seven minutes after the hour. I assume, however, that even your writer would not regard this action as unreasonable in the case of a nine o'clock class. In any event, the action involved no possible violation of the fire regulations. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History...
They shouted, cheered, and-a rare event in France-whistled. Lena could do no wrong: she even got away with a song in schoolgirl French. After the show, admirers followed her to her dressing room. Next day France Soir splashed a three-column picture of her on Page One, and captioned it: "A triumph."* Would she stay on in France, as Josephine Baker had? Said Lena: "Hell no! I got a family in Brooklyn...
...event several Varsity skaters are declared ineligible for tonight's game, Jayvee men will be moved up to take their places...
...with a plan for dividing Palestine, the United Nations has yet to offer an acceptable method of insuring the partition's success. The authors of the plan place their hope for peaceful government during the early life of the nascent states in an armed, locally recruited militia. In the event of an Arab uprising, any native constabulary would prove hopelessly inadequate to keep peace among the warring factions. With this in view, the U.N. cannot neglect the possibility of a concerted Arabian effort to crush the new Jewish state. By failing to provide an effective security program the U.N. opens...