Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They knew little about their quarry except that she was an assistant professor of history. But she sounded promising-she was a Wellesley alumna ('30) of a suitable age (38), and she had recently won a Pulitzer Prize for a scholarly biography entitled Forgotten First Citizen-John Bigelow* What the ladies saw that day was nonetheless a surprise...
...long frantic arm of H.A.A. Director William J. Bingham '16 fell on his shoulder. "I was proud to get a chance to coach at Harvard," says Shepard. "You may not realize it now but back when I was playing, Harvard had an athletic reputation, too I haven't forgotten that...
...almost forgotten how bad it is," said Constance Mellon. "Now I understand why a lot of people leave it and why a lot of people will never come back...
Franks put on a show they have never forgotten: he talked for 2½ hours on the whole European recovery program without notes, pause or repetition...
...Merton's history of the Trappists since the founding of their order in the 12th Century. For an authorized account, the book has moments of uncommon candor. According to Merton, the history of many 17th Century Trappist monasteries "was nothing but a series of petty and sordid intrigues." Forgotten was the strict, humble, ascetic life once outlined by St. Benedict. "The monks . . . had all the comforts of the upper class, with servants and feather beds in their own private apartments." By the 18th Century, Trappist novices were having it so nice that "noble and bourgeois families chose such monasteries...