Word: fored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Walter Brown's action in closing the Arena to college hockey has brought the whole question to the fore, and Bright, with Edward L. Bigelow '21, George P. Gardner '10, Frederick C. Church '21, John P. Chase '28, and F. Austin Harding '39 formed a self-appointed group who are interested in getting together men who will help give or collect funds. Under-graduate petitions have been circulated by William L. Bliss '52, George W. Chase '53, Gerald P. Murphy '52, and Dustin M. Burke...
...room and we wanted herdlike in our seats at the back, the judge came in. He wasted no time in beginning us on the oath of allegiance; an official read it, phrase by phrase, and we repeated it after him, right down to the inflections. "Here-to-fore..." cried the reader, chopping out every syllably; "here-to-fore . . ." we responded. Throughout the swearing of the oath another beadle marched up and down the aisles, eyeing us to make sure that there weren't any sly people among us who were not raising their hands...
...them, with ironic thanks "for what you have done" and a reproof for failing to keep "security and order." To form the new government, he appointed an old friend and adviser: Aly Maher Pasha, 68, one of the richest men in Egypt, who has served twice be fore as Premier. As Chief of the Royal Cabinet when young Farouk first came to the throne as a boy of 16, Maher Pasha had formed and guided all the young monarch's early opinions...
...many called to give rudderless France a new government, the sixth chose to try. Striding crisply into the National Assembly, bespectacled Edgar Faure (pronounced fore) asked to be accepted as Premier. The Deputies, impressed by his agile answers to sharp questions, unexpectedly approved him by a hefty majority (401-to-101). Then he sat down to try to piece together a cabinet, the twelfth to govern France since...
...supposed American tradition is not a tradition, but an accident of 20th century U.S. history. Military men do not usually come to the fore in time of peace, and the U.S. fought no major war between 1865 and 1917. The result is that there were no generals among the nine 20th century Presidents, or among their defeated major party opponents. In fact, there are only five veterans among the nine 20th century Presidents and their eleven defeated opponents: Major William McKinley (Civil War), Colonel Theodore Roosevelt (Spanish-American War), Lieut. Alfred Landon (World War I), Captain Wendell Willkie (World...