Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long winter nights in the old days, the people of the Hebrides would gather about their fires to listen to a Gaelic sgeulachlan (storytelling). Now the 1,000-year-old stories have been mostly forgotten, and there is little sgeulachlan in the Hebrides. One man who has not forgotten is Angus MacMillan...
...TIME has 39 correspondents and executives in its own U.S. and Canadian News Service, 32 in its Foreign News Service, headquartered in the 28 cities throughout the world where we maintain permanent news bureaus. These are the full-time correspondents of the TIME organization we have set up to gather and verify the news-augmented by the full report we receive through our membership in the world-girdling Associated Press...
Farmers began to gather at John Brown's farm to stare with the worshiping eyes of religious devotees. Behind the house was a shed with a sign: "Cell Laboratories-Natural Sciences." The cellar of the house contained three barrels covered with scraps of awning. To the uninitiated eye, the barrels seemed to hold only stagnant water, but Brown would murmur: "This is Life...
Last week Grace Fernald donned her bulky hearing aid, adjusted her glasses and began her last summer of teaching at U.C.L.A. Now 69, she has retired as professor of psychology but will stay on at the clinic school, using her new leisure to gather up the research strewn about her office, and to expound her theories of education. She believes, among other things, that "there are too many women teachers. They are ruining our educational system...
...sons and then was off to New Castle, N.H. for the 40th annual Governors' Conference. There he chatted easily with California's Governor Earl Warren (see below), and with newsmen. They asked him whether he had read Harry Truman's western speeches. "From what I could gather from . . . headlines," the governor answered, "it did not seem like a profitable way to spend my time." Did he think he would get the nomination? He certainly did, "and after not too many ballots...