Word: oed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fremdgen, Langi Kavaliku, Warren Young, Charlie Rowe, and Neil Sclater-Booth will lead the team against New York's combination of Irishmen, Englishmen, Canadians, and Americans. Dick O'Neill, President of the Rugby Club, will be unable to play because of injuries...
...Socialist representative cast his vote for Senator William O. Douglas in an open fight, for Senator Hubert Humphrey in a closed Democratic contest, and for vice-President Nixon against other Republicans...
President and Mrs. Nathan M. Pusey will be at home at 17 Quincy Street from four to six o'clock on the first Sunday of each month, beginning November first. Members of the faculties and others holding Corporation appointments and their wives or husbands are cordially invited...
Modern technology is threatening to destroy the remains of 5,000 years of cultural history unless a UNESCO comission headed by John O. Brew, Director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, can roll back the waters of the Nile...
...Strindberg is the forebear of O'Neill, Ibsen is the inspiration of Arthur Miller. Convinced that "a new production of the play on the tradition basis would truly bury Ibsen for good" Miller has made an adaptation of Enemy of the People that strips away much of the pedanty and Victorianism of the play. Yet the injection of the Miller touch and the attempt to up-date the speech and action undercuts some of the play's force and argumentative strength...