Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arriving from all directions, the ranking swordsmen of the nation will gather at M.I.T. Saturday to take part in a major tryout for the 1936 Olympics. This fencing tournament is to be the largest ever staged in this country. At 3 o'clock on Saturday the competition will open in the Walker Memorial with the preliminary foils bouts...
...game industry is a $10,000,000 group of enterprises responsible for some 500 dingy "sportlands" in which an estimated 500,000 U. S. devotees of bagatelle gather every week to piddle away their time. It is responsible also for some 250,000 bagatelle boards, operated by a nickel-in-the-slot, situated in bars, hotel lobbies, lunchrooms and cigar stores throughout the U. S. Last week, bigwigs of the pin-game industry had the most exciting week they have experienced since, for mysterious reasons connected with Depression, nervous introspection and an appetite for echolalia, the modern brand of bagatelle...
...First Baptist Church of Oakland, Calif, was all ready one night last week to extend a rousing welcome to a visitor from Japan, the No. i Christian of that land. Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa. The church folk of Los Angeles would gather the following night to greet the soft-faced, myopic 47-year-old man of God whose arrival has been heralded in church papers for months. Few days after Christmas the Young People's Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Memphis, had on its program the name of the great Dr. Kagawa, who went to Princeton Theological...
...tell how the wolf can sneak up to a middle-class door, gobble up plain everyday householders before they know it. Years Are So Long (TIME, July 9, 1934) showed that there is often no home for the aged, even if they have done more with their youth than gather rosebuds. If I Have Four Apples neatly demonstrates how a refusal to face the facts of arithmetic can play hob with human lives...
...keynote, I gather...