Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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> Lincoln's: "The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history."
Feature speaker of the occasion will be Lothrop Withington '11. Captain of the 1910 team, he assisted Coaches Percy Haughton and Bob Fisher with the Varsity squad until 1925, and in addition rewed for three years with the crew. He is now a prominent Boston lawyer.
Before: One auto company moaned that on one occasion it had to spend $125,000 and 100,000 man-hours to fill out Government forms. Another tiny manufacturer got so far behind on his paperwork that he had to shut down for three weeks to catch up. Some tell-us...
Thus ended a luncheon in Peoria last week that made American church history. For the first time ever, a non-Catholic delegation of religious leaders was officially entertained and received at a national Catholic conference. The occasion was the 20th annual convention of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference (TIME...
Some of the brigands of thought were led by Poet Théophile Gautier, who wore a scarlet satin vest and green silk trousers. Others wore "red vests like Marat's and collars like Robespierre's." Also present were Authors Balzac and Stendhal, Composer Hector Berlioz. Occasion for...