Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nothing in it to prohibit the sort of thing in question. If, as is very likely, University Hall is clinging to tradition in the fear that dining hall decorum will be upset by the entrance of liquor, and in the fear that the name of Harvard University will thereby gather no grace, let it consider these ancient, yet nonetheless staring facts...
Harvard University will be the host this year to the members and guests of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Scientists from all parts of the United States, Canada, Porto Rico, and Europe will gather in Cambridge and Boston. Professor Einstein is an expected guest. At this meeting, lasting from Wednesday until Saturday, December 27 to 30, there will be popular, lectures and demonstrations as well as scientific conferences, dinners, and lunches in each of the many scientific societies embraced by the Association...
...write some of the world's greatest music. This week in a book described by Critic Lawrence Oilman as "the fairest and most balanced estimate of Brahms as man and artist that has yet appeared in any language," Brahms is presented in credible, life-like drawing.* To gather his material Author Robert Haven Schauffler traveled around Europe, talked with 150 people who had known Brahms, among them his hitherto reticent Viennese housekeeper. An expert 'cellist. Author Schauffler gives a sound analysis of Brahms's music but his book's big contribution is the masterly human portrait...
...days ago General Araki, the fulminating spokesman of Tokio, invited all interested powers to gather and discuss the Asiatic problem with Japan, a proposal which was welcomed by the "interested" countries as an opportunity to return the snubs which the Rising Sun Empire has handed out these last few years. A Japanese offer of international arbitration over Manchukuo is a gesture lost upon these major nations whose own history contains so many examples of the well-known imperialistic principle, "Shoot first and be asked questions afterwards...
...university. . . . It is merely a publicity stunt that they feel is necessary when their glorified bulletin begins to sink into the throes of oblivion. A picture of the editorial room of such an institution at the aforementioned promise of oblivion is one in which all the responsible writers gather to see what criticism will have the most far-reaching effects. You see, I am really excusing the action of such a designer, because of his blindness to present conditions, and his love of seeing his article quoted in other places than his end and means the beloved CRIMSON...