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...groups included the Alaska Club, Center for European Studies Undergraduate Board, Harvard College British Club, Harvard College Fed Challenge, Harvard College Mahjong Club, Harvard College Unitarian Universalists, Scholarship for Peace, Homeschoolers Anonymous, and Wisconsin Club...

Author: By Nicole B. Urken, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Committee Defers Decision on Website | 2/9/2005 | See Source »

...says the CSA holds seven or eight social events a semester, with activities ranging from a mahjong and karaoke night to a dim sum study break...

Author: By Justin D. Lerer, | Title: POLITICAL ACTIVISM VS. SOCIAL ACTIVITIES | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

Keng-ça fou, Mahjong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Classical Records: Aug. 11, 1961 | 8/11/1961 | See Source »

...Mahjong in One Lesson. There he was a thoughtful, graceful writer and an incandescent idea man, and he charmed some diverse writers into contributing to the Independent, including Andrew Mellon, Anna Louise Strong, Hilaire Belloc, Frederick Lewis Allen ("Mahjong in One Lesson") and John Dewey. Politically, Herter followed the Republican line, but sometimes the line chafed. He was a strong champion of the League of Nations, a scornful baiter of old Isolationist Henry Cabot Lodge, and he never hesitated to lash the administration in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: A Time for Governors | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

When Ike skyrocketed to power and responsibility in World War II, Mamie stayed out of the limelight, and settled down in Washington's Wardman Park Hotel. She sat out the war playing mahjong and pooling meat-ration coupons with seven other war-separated generals' wives. They had dinner together almost every night. Mamie did not take her turn at cooking, but she always washed the dishes. After the war, in New York, Washington, Paris, Mamie stayed on in the background, and her friends predict that if she goes to the White House, she will still avoid the spotlight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The General's Lady | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

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