Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...religious leadership. Besides there will be appropriate arrangements for smaller services, so there could be evening ones as well as morning, for I understand that in the present plans the cathedral type will be used having a nave for larger services and a Choir for smaller groups to gather in on weekdays...
...pass judgement. It is perfectly possible that better coaching methods might produce more winning crews than Harvard has had in recent years, but victory or defeat at New London is by no means a fair criterion of rowing at Harvard. In the long run, the Crimson standard will gather unto it, its share of victories. As long as the actual conditions are satisfactory from the undergraduate's point of view, there is no cause for widespread reform...
...that really the antics and illogical, name-calling speeches of the candidates are a comment upon the mental caliber of the voters. The candidates are experienced politicians and act after the fashion of lunatics in their speeches because they think that is the way to get popular sympathy and gather in the votes." Dr. George Burt Lake of Highland Park (Chicago suburb), editor of Clinical Medicine & Surgery, declared: "I have no doubt that at least one or two of the candidates are psychically abnormal." Dr. Albert Moore Barrett, professor of psychiatry* at the University of Michigan Medical School...
...this instance the compiler, Mr. Wolfe, has done more than merely gather the material for an anthology. He has given his apologia in a long preface and before each section, as for instance, the Sportsman's Winter, Countryman's Winter, Reveller's and Fireside Winter, he has contributed an introductory poem of his own. This thread of the poet and compiler's personality running through the book serves to unify the whole and give it a distinctive flavor, so often lacking in the usual run of anthologies...
...President asked Congress to appropriate $30,000 for U. S. participation in a second Polar year in 1932. During a Polar year meteorologists of many countries are sent into the Arctic to gather and compare atmospheric data, draw new conclusions about the weather. The last was held...