Word: landing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is, in fact . . . only one loss which we must steel ourselves to . . . and that is the Hollywood version of life in Great Britain. And what a loss it is! Never again to see that enchanted or at any rate transmogrified land, wrapped almost all the year round in a dense fog-that will indeed be a deprivation. It was a land which we had all learned to love . . . it had a quaint, dreamlike charm all of its own. Its House of Commons (in which Sir Aubrey Smith almost always sat, often as a duke), though generally rather smaller than...
Vachel Lindsay's Simon Legree" in Douglas Moore's choral adaption enjoyed enthusiastic competence at the hands of the Tiger unit. Adept musical comedy touches in the solo made this selection attractive enough to smother the tastes of a poorly-directed "Promised Land" from "Porgy and Bess." In any event football classics such as "Going Back" would up the program to establish a final fresh collegiate taste that spells an audience verdict of success for the annual event...
...selfish will find much to argue with on this point; but those who have any sort of conscience will realize that we who are fortunate enough to live in this land of plenty, should also realize that we are only men also realize that our abuse or our blessings is wrong no master how you took of it. William L. Palusm
Despite a search the length and breadth of the land, Law School Forum leaders have been unable to find a single speaker who will appear on a Harvard platform to defend the House Un-American Activities Committee...
Under the "bullheaded premier" Wang Anshih, this took the form of state capitalist enterprises which wrecked small business, taxes which deprived farmers of their land and a totalitarian form of military conscription. Su fought them all, with varying success. Among his achievements was the founding of the first public hospital in China and the engineering of an adequate water supply for the city of Hangchow...