Word: gatherers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afraid to stand up against Ike. Last month, Taft Strategist John D. M. Hamilton led a task force to New Hampshire to look things over, and announced "surprising and encouraging results." Taftmen noted with pleasure that March 11 is the annual town-meeting day, on which residents gather at churches, schools and town halls to discuss town business. Their fond hope: that a good percentage of the small-town folks will step over to the polling booths and vote for Taft. They were happy, too, when General Douglas MacArthur withdrew from the primary, with a comment which sounded like...
This relationship gives the meteorologists a toehold. By measuring the speed of the wind aloft and the distances between the waves, they can predict with some accuracy how fast the waves will drift. They gather this information by means of sounding balloons that carry small radios. When such reports from all over North America are evaluated and combined with local data, the Weather Bureau predicts cautiously what sort of weather the waves aloft will bring to each part of the U.S. during 1) the next five days, and 2) the next 30 days...
Most of his helpers have great admiration for him, though some complain that he overorganizes. He does most of this work in luncheon-conferences (to save time)--which range from two and three day gatherings to his "round tables" of his Formed Elements Group. At the latter, experts in fields related to blood separation and preservation gather once or twice a month to munch sandwiches and discuss recent progress. These are tape-recorded for future reference...
...Reverend Mr. Robert C. Dodds, the church's minister to students, had planned to gather a group of prominent persons to debate the pros and cons of social drinking before an audience of University and Radcliffe students...
Contrasting to Klee's cubism and abstraction is the sculpture of Gerhard Marcks. Unfortunately, Allied bombing destroyed most of Marck's work, and it is practically impossible to gather together a representative sampling. A majority of the forms shown--cast in bronze--are long, lean, and austere. There are, however, one roly-poly figure called "A Dutchman" and a very appealing ceramic of two lovers kissing which looks like something Picasso might have translated into a third dimension...