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Word: occasionals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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May 1 is the final polling date, and the Party will recognize the occasion by flying their flag, a red background with a white arrow pointing left, from a freshman dormitory. They declined to name the building.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Social Progressives Sponsor Freshman For Student Council | 4/17/1959 | See Source »

On a mountain 28 miles northwest of Madrid last week assembled the flower of Franco Spain-Cabinet ministers, generals, admirals, all of the nation's four cardinals, 37 of its bishops, six mitered abbots, and the Papal Nuncio. Occasion for this august gathering: the dedication of the Valley of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: 20 Years After | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

A Lot of Browns. In its most virulent form, says Tabori quoting a psychiatrist, stupidity serves "to disguise the truth from ourselves." Milder cases result in folly, credulity, superstition, plain silliness. Men of science have resisted progress with the mindless tenacity of Bourbons. Distinguished experts, including members of the famed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: As Vast as Mankind | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

When Mayor McNamara welcomed the Cambridge Civic Symphony on the occasion of its debut in Sanders Theatre last night, he voiced the justifiable pride of a Cantabridgian in this important even for the community. As President Pusey, who followed the Mayor, observed, civic symphonies are spreading throughout the country, and...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: Cambridge Civic Symphony | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

On another occasion a professor was alert enough to douse sudden flames in a wastebasket in his office in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. If he had not been there, gallons of inflammable alcohol would have caught fire and destroyed the building.

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Officials Cool to Harvard Fires But Blazes Ignite Student Spirit | 4/9/1959 | See Source »

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