Word: gatherers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cambridge, about four years ago, a last attempt at reviving local college spirit was made, a last futile effort to gather the College together to back up the football team. The occasion was a rally at the Union before the Yale game. For several days before the eventful evening, influential, albeit slightly bored Seniors canvassed the dormitories for recruits; lethargic meetings were held, resolutions passed, and a few ambitious first-year men scoured the city for red lights. When the big night arrived, only a handful of upper-classmen were pres- ent, a group so small that the gathering would...
...Times are so serious today that everybody must cheer up his neighbor. So I'll try to do my share," remarked Professor Albert Einstein to a Berlin society audience last week. For two hours he entertained with learned explanations of such familiar phenomena as why tea-leaves gather in the centre of the cup, why airplanes fly. "Why does the wind die down at sunset, with the sailor left helpless out in the middle of the water?" said he. "This is a serious matter. I was once left with a young lady alone in a boat until...
...forward end of the exhibition room is a tableau depicting an overnight camp on the ice. Such camps were necessary when a party went out from Little America to explore or gather scientific data. A tent accommodating two men stands in the center of the display; in the foreground is the powerful radio with which the party transmitted its daily report of the condition of the men, dogs, and food supply back to Little America. The Nansen cooker and the device for melting snow into drinking water are also shown...
Merry-Go-Round was born among a coterie of newsmen known as the Georgetown Group who gather periodically at each other's homes to discuss the state of public affairs. Liberals at heart, they are dissatisfied with the political times and Merry-Go-Round is the expression of their dissatisfaction. Those who either wrote chapters of the book or materially contributed ideas and information are supposed to include (though each diplomatically denies it) Farmer Murphy and Drew Pearson of the Baltimore Sun, Robert S. Allen of the Christian Science Monitor, George Abell of the Washington Daily News, Charles Ross...
When Highlanders gather they play loudly and persistently on bagpipes: piobaireachds (traditional laments), marches, pibrochs (battle-cries), strathspeys and reels (dances). They dance highland flings, reels, jigs, sword dances and hornpipes. They compete at putting the shot and tossing the caber (a heavy pole). To do all these things in Banff last week came, Scots from all over Canada. To see and hear came 10,000 guests, including Lieutenant Governors Dr. William Egbert of Alberta, Hon. James Duncan McGregor of Manitoba, Hon. H. W. Newlands of Saskatchewan, Premiers John E. Brownlee of Alberta and S. F. Tolmie of British Columbia...