Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The occasion for its bucolic setting and display of fruits, vegetables, paintings, canned goods, baked goods, flowers, etc. was TIME Inc.'s seventh annual Country Fair-an event that has come to mean a good deal to us here as a way of exhibiting our extracurricular handiwork to one...
From the spectator's angle, it is to be hoped that the Crimson will be on the receiving end of the opening kickoff come Saturday, but should the situation be reversed, guard Emil Drvaric will be on hand for the occasion. He has been practicing his specialty during the week...
The Young in Heart. In Meridian, Miss., citizens turned out to welcome George L. Howe, 94, as he passed through town on a cross-country bicycle tour. In Germiston, South Africa, Peter Pringle, 118, explained why he had shaved off his beard: it made him "feel too old." In Bristol...
Outside the little (pop. 5,230) town of Jacarezinho, 335 miles upcountry from São Paulo, several hundred farmers watched a big tractor rip a stump out of the rich red earth. Said one grizzled farmer to Nelson Rockefeller, who had come all the way from New York for...
As in all of Santayana's philosophy ("My system is not mine, nor new") pragmatism, naturalism, hedonism and materialism leap into the philosophical arena flashing beautifully tempered verbal weapons, gracefully swipe at each other with sardonic wit and brilliant exposition-until all fall back exhausted by their civilized exhibitionism...