Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Following the Japanese surprise attack at Pearl Harbor December 7, 1942, then Harvard President James Bryant Conant '13 pledged the entire University's resources to a speedy Allied victory...
...Then came Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941," reads the Fiftieth Reunion Book. "The next day a mass meeting was held in Agassiz House. [Radcliffe's President Ada Louise Comstock advised, it is our] `immediate duty to continue our college work in order to prepare ourselves for the organization of a peaceful world...
...class of 1945 is your grandmother's age. We tested only three months of prewar college life: Pearl Harbor and V-E Day bracketed our years here. The wartime changes began to transform the College...
...movie's weakness lies in the fact that interactions between the characters, especially between Jade and her younger sister Pearl, sometimes seem forced. The viewer is constantly plagued by the nagging consciousness that the actors are acting, rather than actually inhabiting an alternate world. This failure seems a result of a discrepancy between the director's expectation of the rapport that the characters should share and the actual quality of their interactions...
...months before Pearl Harbor, and Henry R. Luce, the 43-year-old founder and editor of TIME, wanted to pay a visit to his hometown of Tengchow, China. He also wanted to check out personally the country's leader, Chiang Kai-shek, a man he had largely created, at least as far as most Americans were concerned. Traveling with his wife, the formidable Clare Boothe Luce, "Harry," as he was called, decided to bring home a souvenir, a talented bundle of energy named Theodore H. White. They are the Harry & Teddy (Random House; 340 pages; $24) of this smart little...