Word: pearling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wall (15 Pearl St.) in the Central Square is one of the wackiest movie theaters around--they really show stuff you are not going to see anywhere else. Most of the time they show collections of short comedy films, cartoons. Outtakes, spoofs, etc. The rest of the time it could be anything from great cinema to a collection of the worst films ever shown. If you don't mind taking a chance it will probably be good, or at least different. Usually it will be stuff you never heard of but occasionally they come up with a real gem. This...
...Wave. Correspondent Sybel Smiley, writing the news from Nubbin Hill, had noted that "we have some very muddy roads again. There isn't any bottom to anywhere now. The sun is trying to shine some, which looks good." Correspondent Rosie Ragland from over at Red Oak reported that "Pearl Davis and I purchased 15 hens from Mary Redman Saturday night." For the record, Ragland also wrote: "Norma Patterson has the shingles." Mrs. Hartley Williams' word from Archey Valley was "I am feeling some better after being in bed most of last week...
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, he was hired by the U.S. government to organize South American natives and resuscitate the rubber tapping industry, to counter Japanese control over natural rubber supplies in Asia...
...Allies had regained a great deal since the darkest days of 1941 and early 1942, when the Germans' panzer divisions swept to within 40 miles of Moscow and their Japanese allies struck at Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, Malaya. The hitherto invincible Japanese navy had been checked at the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the Soviets held fast at Stalingrad, and the Anglo-American invasion of North Africa that autumn inspired Churchill to say that although victory there might not be the beginning of the end, it was perhaps "the end of the beginning...
...Faculty, John E. Dunlop, accepted a post in the Nixon Administration and left on short notice in 1973. Franklin Ford left office in 1969 at a time of turbulence, and before him, McGeorge Bundy "went to Washington very suddenly," Rosovsky notes. As far back as the '50's, Pearl Buck resigned somewhat precipitously when Nathan M. Pusey '28 became President of Harvard...