Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Says 49-year-old Editor Walter Yust: "They used to gather up a staff of editors and get out a new edition. Then the editorial staff would be fired and a sales staff hired. The sales staff would work for as many years as there was still a market. . . . Then the sales staff would be fired and a new editorial staff would be hired. Each new editorial staff would have its own revision methods. . . . The revisions weren't very thorough and there were always a lot of articles badly out of date...
Prefacing their exams with some extra-curricular nonsense, two Winthrop House inhabitants caused quite a crowd of bewildered onlookers to gather at the Gore Hall gate Sunday evening when they mounted the second floor ledge and circumnavigated the building on the courtyard side...
Meat of these reports concerned a specially trained pornographic editor trained vigorously for the last three weeks to carry baseballs in his mouth. This crafty maneuver is calculated to outwit feeble-minded Lampoon Men who will furnish the opposition for the stalwarts. All loose-knit players will gather together to ask for aims at 2:30 in the CRIMSON edifice...
German secret agents gather their in formation by eyes and ears, communicate the more urgent bits by radio. One of them, a stripteaser, cultivates an innocent soldier in the 95th Brigade. She easily learns, one night backstage, that his brigade is moving. That is only a beginning for German Intelligence Headquarters, which promptly assigns two men to the job of discovering the English plan and destination. From scraps of information, each almost meaningless in itself, these spies deduce the imminence of a commando raid and its objective, a submarine base on the French coast. Result: the English are trapped when...
...famed kite-shaped "L'Enfant plan," of which the White House is the northern wing, and the Capitol, the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial are the east-west line, connected by the Mall. Next week, on the 200th annivesary of Thomas Jefferson's birth, the celebrities will gather, the speeches will be read...