Word: foray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having offered many of its officer-members the opportunity to appear in the pages of Life magazine's "Life Goes to a Party" section as a result of the past weekend's photographic foray, the Hasty Pudding Service Club for Officers has planned two features for local entertainment upon next Saturday and Sunday nights...
Captain-coach Tom Bridge had expected to take down the entire team, but official limitations kept the number down to 20. Nat Brackett and Jay Hurley will lead attackmen Bill Build and Jack Roemer in their foray against the Blue nets. Mach Broderick, Miles Overholt, Ed Davis, and Don Page will attempt to take the ball away from the docile Blue attackmen before they do any damage...
...dogs in the Senate now were acid-tongued, bombastic Tom Connally of Texas, floor manager of the poll-tax State foray; Mississippi's Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo, who once proposed deportation of Negroes to Liberia; Tennessee's bumbling Kenneth McKellar, still chafing from his arrest for dodging Senate attendance (TIME, Nov. 23); and owlish Joseph C. O'Mahoney of Wyoming, only Democratic Senator from a non-poll-tax State to take the floor against constitutionality of the bill. O'Mahoney said he had no love for poll taxes, but their abolition...
...secret U.S. air base in China, Brigadier General Claire Chennault squinted over photographs of bomb-scarred Linhsi after the first U.S. foray into North China. Said he: "It's going to be a cold winter in Japan." Riding huge four-motored Consolidated Liberators, Chennault's bombers had struck hard at Linhsi's Kailan coalfields. Those mines, 75 miles northeast of Tientsin, yield one-third of China's normal coal production, furnish much fuel for Japan's heavy industries and domestic heating...
Making his annual foray into the world of music, Roger B. Merriman '96. Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, will speak today on "The Background of Music in the Reformation." The address will be delivered in John Knowles Paine Hall, at the Music Building, at 5 o'clock this afternoon...