Word: grayness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hanna H. Gray, instructor in History and Literature and a member of the committee, noted that both she and Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, teaching fellow in History, are tutors in Kirkland House, where they meet both Harvard and Radcliffe tutees. However, since Radcliffe students are not associated with a Harvard House, they are often assigned tutors also not House affiliates. Whether this situation works to the disadvantage of Radcliffe students is a problem the committee ought to consider, Mrs. Gray said...
...mailed him a retirement check. The business manager himself was sixty-four, and, although he never allowed himself to say so, his having to make out checks for Professor Greg was a piece of unfinished business that he would like to see settled before he himself retired. The gray-haired woman who stamped the cards at the circulation desk in the library held similar sentiments. Three times a week Professor Greg came in with his green cloth book bag, the kind that had been carried by schoolboys in Boston, and took it away bulging with books. Professor Greg, she knew...
...onto the sidewalk. When a passing student had reached him he was already dead. It was an ironic season for him to die. Autumn had come, and registration for classes had just begun. There was a large funeral procession, which included the business manager of the University and the gray-haired librarian who worked at the circulation desk, as well as the entire department. Briggs, Ford, and Hall were among the pallbearers. Even after classes had been going for some weeks, Ford and Hall found themselves still depressed. Over coffee they talked about Greg and what he had meant...
Lineup. In Middlesbrough, England, Margaret Gray, 29, resigned as a policewoman rather than end a developing romance with a man who has a criminal record...
...goin' to be like this all the time. It won't be too long foah we kin git married . . ." But when Jim gets around to long thoughts about the landscape, Author Salamanca puts down these words about a summer storm: "It gets gray and cool and then the wind comes gusty from the mountains . . . and the tossing trees in the wind are like oceans with little silver fish slipping through the tops of the waves...