Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hopeless love whose portrait hung above a desk, left memories jealously guarded by their families. The play opens 18 years after Alison's demise, on the last day of the last century. Alison's house has been sold, the family is moving out. Her relatives gather. All save one have denied themselves life, just as Alison had. After a good deal of melodrama, during which a doddering old aunt trys to burn the house down, a niece gets hold of a packet of Alison's poems- the ones which tell of her thwarted love. The niece...
...December seventeenth Dunster House will gather in a panelled dining room for a banquet and light roistering. On the same evening the students of Lowell will climb up to a tower and listen in arm chairs to a program of serious music. Both Houses are remembering Christmas. One thousand, nine hundred and thirty years ago Wise Men traveled miles to find a stable and to celebrate the same occasion...
News candidates gather and write the articles which appear daily. It has been said many times that a CRIMSON news competition is by far the best way to become acquainted with the University in all its phases of activity. The editorial candidates write an editorial each day, while business candidates devote their time to soliciting advertisements and doing a little work in the office, learning the management of the paper. Photographic candidates take, develop, and print pictures of University events...
...Anna Hyatt Huntington, sculptress; Willa Gather, novelist; George Arliss, actor; Alwyn Bach, radio announcer?medals from the American Academy of Arts & Letters...
...engaged in science are not able to gather together the loose ends of scientific data into logical and significant theory. The majority of scientists have no very far sighted vision of a broader, more embracing field than their own limited specialty. It requires far more than average intellect to comprehend the complexities of natural phenomena and to be able to build up the scattered fragments of knowledge into a coherent structure. Such capacities of thought were necessary in transiting the obscure and difficult geologic evidence of the age of the earth into terms of millions of years. The figure arrived...