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Word: gathers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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American travelers are often shocked at the ragged beggars who gather around the cathedrals of Europe, the mosques and holy places of the Orient. The sight of a paretic Venetian pandering his nine-year-old daughter, or of a Calcutta mendicant clutching the withered body of a dead baby with one hand, a beggar's bowl in the other, is not easily forgotten. In such situations, Americans often assume the smug attitude that such things are not done at home; in the good old U.S.A., everything is organized, charity is tidily and efficiently handled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Innocents at Home | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

Each Christmas Eve the members of Jerusalem's diplomatic corps gather, gorgeous in cocked hats, plumes and silver swords, and retrace the starlit route of the Magi from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. They climax the occasion with midnight Mass at the Church of the Nativity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HOLY LAND: 52 Hours of Peace | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...great delusion began innocently enough in 1691 in the little town of Salem Village along Massachusetts' north shore. To escape the gloom of a dreary New England winter, the young girls of the neighborhood began to gather in the evening at the home of the local minister, the Reverend Samuel Parris, who had several children of his own. The chief object of their attentions was the Reverend's servant, an aged West Indian Negro woman named Tituba. To those impressionable children from austere Puritan households, Tituba told romantic stories of the colorful land of her birth. All through the winter...

Author: By Daniel A. Rezneck, | Title: Harvard President Plays Hero Role in Witchcraft Trials | 12/12/1953 | See Source »

...then asked to a club dinner, sometimes held at the Signet or the Boston Harvard Club. Should he reach the final dinner the candidate can be quite assured of an invitation to join; but there are frequent exceptions. Election night (this year it was last night) the members gather at the club to discuss all the candidates who have survived the punching. Since there are no quotas, the clubs invite as many or as few as they wish. The average is about 15 invitations in those clubs which get a majority of the sophomores they invite. Porcellian, however, will sometimes...

Author: By Arthur J. Langgutlr, | Title: Eleven Final Clubs: From Pig To Bat | 12/9/1953 | See Source »

...down to be built anew, services were held in the Sunday-school auditorium. But the church fathers had carefully placed the President's pew in its usual spot (seventh on the right). The nation's first family joined in singing Come, Ye Thankful People, Come and We Gather Together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Cabin by the Pines | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

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