Word: hand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anita Maxwell Gil '49, who would receive her degree summa cum laude in Romance Languages this morning if she were on hand to accept it. Instead, she's on her honeymoon with her husband, Peter...
...positive benefits of the trade center around the fact that the writer can enjoy all the excitement of athletics, avoiding at the same time all of the unpleasantness (i.e. the physical effort). This is a very tempting set-up, especially on cold November afternoons, when, clip-board in hand, the writer ascends to the relative warmth and comfort of the Soldier's Field press-box, whence he can gaze down in fine scorn on players and spectators alike...
During the hour before the ceremonies members of the staff were on hand to explain the fundamentals of the machine to laymen as well as to point out the fine points to experts...
...also cautioned against the "contagious seduction of the mass movements of our time. They invite you to unload the responsibilities of personal life upon society as a whole. If you are a fellow-traveler you can hand over the direction of your life to some higher...
...special relaxation of the rules-he had joined the Spies; at nine he had been a troop leader. At eleven he had denounced his uncle to the Thought Police after overhearing a conversation which appeared to him to have criminal tendencies ... At 19 he had designed a hand grenade which had been adopted by the Ministry of Peace and which, at its first trial, had killed 31 Eurasian prisoners in one burst. At 23 he had perished in action ... He was a total abstainer and a nonsmoker, had no recreations except a daily hour in the gymnasium, and had taken...