Word: letter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been the desire of the Harvard Annex to become a part of the University, but the question of financial endowment has thus far been the chief obstacle.... The reasons for this closer union of the Annex and the University have been clearly stated by Mrs. Agassiz in a letter to the last Nation. They are first, "that the existence of the Annex and its present course of study may be permanently insured to the students;" second, "that the students of the Annex should have freer use of the library and other educational facilities belonging to the University than they...
...body splattered with black, sticky mud lay off the road near San Stephano on a tiny West Indian isle--flabby, middle-aged, and wet from an afternoon thunder-storm. Courtney Courtney Peabody had drowned in the rain. A half-finished letter found in his hotel room contained his last recorded words: "Gee, mom, it's hot as hell down here. When can I come home?" The letter, like Courtney's life, must remain uncompleted...
...most stupid graduate I knew" and further conjectured that "there were few less intelligent among those who failed." That Courtney ever arrived at Harvard has remained a source of awe and wonder. His parents deny that he was an imposter; the Admissions Committee rejects the rumor that a letter of acceptance was sent him by mistake. The Deans in general refuse to be approached on "the Peabody matter...
...Enemy Within. In Abilene, Texas, Postman Phil Burkett tried to deliver a letter to Postmaster Clyde Grant, was bitten twice by the postmaster...
...Philippines bombing mission three days after Pearl Harbor, had won an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy, strictly on his own. The surefire way for "Corky" Kelly to enter the Point: accept an appointment by Ike, pursuant to a request made in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt in a letter addressed "to the President of the U.S. in 1956." Young Kelly instead passed a competitive examination last March, will become a plebe in July...