Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bleeding from a million wounds. It is a country of refugees and prisoners. Vast hordes of peasants have left their meager land to escape the Red terror. In ramshackle huts on the fringes of provincial towns, they sit hungrily day after day. When a foreign newsman appears, they gather around him. Why does the U.S. not send a torrent of aid? Most of those who ask this question have kin or acquaintances who came back rich from America. To them the U.S. is a bottomless well of wealth...
...fine June morning, wrote Shirley Jackson, the whole village began to gather. The children, their pockets stuffed with stones, came first, and three of the boys built a pile of stones in a corner of the square. Then came the men, talking of taxes, crops, the weather. The women, wearing house dresses and sweaters, came last...
...gathering will take 11 days, also an increase from last year. Students gather from NSA-affiliated colleges all over the country and make plans for the coming year, passes on the activities of the previous year, and make those contacts and Reasons that are so necessary for NSA work...
Come fine weather, Harvard's lustiest lungs will gather on Widener's steps again to ripple the ivy on the library's wall with their stentorian basses. G. Wallace Woodworth '24 will conduct the Glee Club with the assistance of William F. Russell...
...itself as a work of architecture, the building is a masterpiece. Dean Hudnut of the School of Design calls it "one of the most subtle and original works in the University, a very clever fusion of three German traditions." The building, designed by a Munich architect, manages to gather under one roof a happy combination of a Baroque court, a Romanesque hall, and a Gothic chapel...