Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dozens of embalmers are at work in the garage as people gather outside in silent expressionless groups...
Dunster, Eliot, Leverett, and Winthrop Houses will hold nomination meetings tonight at 7 o'clock in their Common Rooms, commuters will gather in Dudley Hall tomorrow noon at 1:15 o'clock, and Lowell House will wind up to series tomorrow night at 7 o'clock...
Rumbling. Who was the culprit? Not the mine management which had allowed deadly quantities of coal dust to gather in the tunnels at Centralia No. 5. Neither was it Robert M. Medill, the cynical, hard-drinking director of the Illinois Department of Mines and Minerals. Medill had sought political contributions from mine owners. He had refused to listen to an inspector who had pleaded that the Centralia mine be closed as a deathtrap. Medill resigned in a hurry-but Lewis showed no interest in him. He was after bigger game...
...eyes, 3,000 men being transported from the central prison camp to the central station. They were to be shipped to Siberia. After seeing faces like theirs, you don't feel like going to an operetta in the evening." In Tallinn, every five years, the people used to gather for Laulupidu (singing festivals), with 15,000 singers and 3.000 orchestra members (see cut). Now, there are no more Laulupidu; Estonians explain that it is hard to find enough male voices...
...Radiators. Like birds, bats are streamlined, with their testes inside their bodies. When inactive, their temperature may fall very low, but when they fly, as they do every night to gather food, they are as hot as birds. How do their spermatogenic cells withstand this nightly cooking? Dr. Cowles examined bats, both active and resting, in the breeding and the non-breeding seasons. He found that, while they are at rest, their hairless wings are pallid, almost bloodless. But when they raise their temperature to the flying level, which they must do by an effort of will before they...