Word: musters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo Correspondents' Club. Subject: the history of the Hudson's Bay Co. Before leaving Tokyo for home, he took a walk with Emperor Hirohito amid the 700-year-old dwarf trees in his garden. Reported the Colonel, whose occasional sarcasm and constant, majestic deadpan sometimes pass muster for a sense of humor: "The Emperor said he hoped in the future the relations between Japan and the U.S. would be as warm as they have been in the past...
Poetry was founded by a frail, abstracted but determined spinster named Harriet Monroe. She spent weeks in the Chicago Public Library, reading up on contemporary British and American poets. Then she wrote letters to the ones who passed her muster, inviting them to join in starting a magazine to "give the art of poetry a voice in the land. . . ." The replies were enthusiastic; Amy Lowell sent a check for $25, and Ezra Pound (then in London) agreed to become Poetry's first, unsalaried foreign editor. Harriet Monroe knocked on wealthy Chicago doors (Samuel Insull, Cyrus McCormick, Charles Dawes), soon...
...Hanover, there is little interest shown in extracurricular work. The Daily Dartmouth, oldest college newspaper in the nited States, publishes six times a week without any real student enthusiasm behind it. The paper has been unable to muster a staff even half the size of the Crimson's. Other undergraduate organizations--dramatic and language societies, glee club and band--struggle along with the support of the particularly interested few instead of flourishing as might be expected on so isolated a campus as Dartmouth...
Only 493 students voted for retention of the all-male cheering section, while 2171 voted for abolition and 75 could muster no opinion. The grand total of 2739 votes comprised one of the largest in recent Council history...
...continuation of its efforts last year and over the summer to muster student support behind the United Nations, the University U.N. Council plans to expand its local, national, and overseas activities during the coming term...