Word: highlight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Highlight of the evening came when Vic Ehler, janitor of Matthews Hall; and one of the three judges, bowed to popular demand and did a tap dance. The other two judges were Coles Phinizy '42, president of the Lampoon, and John C. Robbins '42, president of the CRIMSON...
Canada's winter sportsmen have developed amazing speed on snowshoes. They have traveled 100 yards in twelve seconds,* a mile in six minutes, five miles in 32 minutes. Highlight of every snow-shoe meet is the ten-mile marathon. In last week's ten-mile event-for the International championship-no Americans dared compete. Favorite was little Gerard Cote, 27-year-old newsdealer of St. Hyacinthe, Que. Cote, recently voted Canada's No. i athlete, weighs only 128 lb. Three years ago, he won the International snow-shoe marathon in the record-breaking time...
...Highlight of a colloquium on The Idea of God in the Ancient Near East was the assertion by Herbert Gordon May of Oberlin that the religion of the Hebrew patriarchs differed widely from that of Moses, and that Moses himself probably changed Gods during the Children of Israel's 40 years of wandering in the wilderness during the Exodus. In Genesis the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is regularly referred to as El, and Professor May thinks he was akin to the Canaanite Ba'al. With Moses the Hebrew Bible begins referring to God as Yahweh (Jehovah...
...Highlight of the interview was when Ann divided her audience into three classes: Men, gentlemen, and others. She was quite definite in stating that Harvardians belonged in the "gentlemen" category. People from Yale are "others...
...symposium of "The Relation of the United States to World Affairs" was a highlight of the afternoon program. Held in New Lecture Hall, and broadcast over a national hookup, the meeting featured speeches by a number of faculty members...