Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leading scientists, educators, and research men will gather at the Harvard Club of Boston tonight to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the Lawrence Scientific School, a Harvard institution which, in its time, fathered many of the techniques of modern scientific and general education...
...life was torn between two loves, "my people" and "my God." Writes Paterson: "The other prophets of the Old Testament seem to stand at the side of God and hurl their words of doom down upon the people, but Jeremiah seems to stand between the people and God and gather to his own bosom all the shafts of the divine indignation...
...editors of a college daily have little time to philosophize about the ideals and aims inherent in their day-to-day work. Their pressing problems to gather enough news to fill the pages, and to write that news as concisely and as fairly as possible. It is not surprising, therefore, that a group of comparatively inexperienced journalists does not always utilize its full opportunities in handling a free college newspaper. An anniversary may be a useful time to articulate the long-range aims, that are generally lost among other necessary, but petty, problems...
Vyacheslav Molotov and his Russian colleagues lunched with George Marshall at the U.S. ambassador's residence in London. In the sitting room, a photographer asked them to gather round the fireplace. "Good," grinned Andrei Vishinsky, "that will be cozy...
...Willa Gather died, and readers recognized the passing of a true artist. Theodore Dreiser's final novel provided reminiscent readers with more of the honest pulp into which that slow, bewildered mill of meditation converted the tough timber of life. Booth Tarkington's last unfinished story faintly echoed the springtime tones that he caught from young middle-class voices in another...